An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... verse , which is now become indispensably neceffary ; and which has fo forcibly and univerfally influenced the publick ear , as to have rendered every moderate rhymer melodious . POPE lengthened the abruptnefs of Waller , and at the ...
... verse , which is now become indispensably neceffary ; and which has fo forcibly and univerfally influenced the publick ear , as to have rendered every moderate rhymer melodious . POPE lengthened the abruptnefs of Waller , and at the ...
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... verse 277 , and the wolves defcending from the Alps , and and a view of winter within the polar circle , verfe 809 , which are all of them highly finished originals , excepting a few of those blemishes intimated above . WINTER is in my ...
... verse 277 , and the wolves defcending from the Alps , and and a view of winter within the polar circle , verfe 809 , which are all of them highly finished originals , excepting a few of those blemishes intimated above . WINTER is in my ...
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... verse , heu ! non tua , and of its repetition after tibi . The places in which Orpheus , according to POPE , made his lamentations , are not fo wild , fo favage and difmal , as thofe mentioned by Virgil ; to introduce him " befide the ...
... verse , heu ! non tua , and of its repetition after tibi . The places in which Orpheus , according to POPE , made his lamentations , are not fo wild , fo favage and difmal , as thofe mentioned by Virgil ; to introduce him " befide the ...
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... verse and voice , to a wonderful degree . No poem indeed , affords fo much various matter for a compofer to work upon ; as Dryden has here introduced and expreffed all the greater paffions , and as the tranfitions from one to the other ...
... verse and voice , to a wonderful degree . No poem indeed , affords fo much various matter for a compofer to work upon ; as Dryden has here introduced and expreffed all the greater paffions , and as the tranfitions from one to the other ...
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... verse 855 , pain has totally exhausted the ftrength and spirits of Philoctetes , and it is neceffary for the plot of the tragedy that he should fall asleep , it is then , that the chorus breaks out into an exquifite ode to fleep . As in ...
... verse 855 , pain has totally exhausted the ftrength and spirits of Philoctetes , and it is neceffary for the plot of the tragedy that he should fall asleep , it is then , that the chorus breaks out into an exquifite ode to fleep . As in ...
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