An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... verse , And lift'ning wolves grow milder as they hear ‡ on account of the absurdity , which Spenfer overlooked , of introducing wolves into Eng- land . But on this principle , which is cer- tainly a just one , may it not be asked , why ...
... verse , And lift'ning wolves grow milder as they hear ‡ on account of the absurdity , which Spenfer overlooked , of introducing wolves into Eng- land . But on this principle , which is cer- tainly a just one , may it not be asked , why ...
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... verse , which is now become indispensably necessary ; and which has so forcibly and universally in- fluenced the publick ear , as to have rendered every moderate rhymer melodious . POPE lengthened the abruptness of Waller , and at the ...
... verse , which is now become indispensably necessary ; and which has so forcibly and universally in- fluenced the publick ear , as to have rendered every moderate rhymer melodious . POPE lengthened the abruptness of Waller , and at the ...
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... verses , to which the reader is referred , at all more appropriated . The stag - chase , that im- mediately follows , although some of the lines are incomparably good , * is not fo full , fo animated , and so circumftantiated , as that ...
... verses , to which the reader is referred , at all more appropriated . The stag - chase , that im- mediately follows , although some of the lines are incomparably good , * is not fo full , fo animated , and so circumftantiated , as that ...
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... verses written at a Solemn music , and on the Passion , in the same volume , and a vacation exercise , pag . y . in all which are to be found many strokes of the sublime . The The oracles are dumb , * No voice or hideous 38 ESSAY ON THE ...
... verses written at a Solemn music , and on the Passion , in the same volume , and a vacation exercise , pag . y . in all which are to be found many strokes of the sublime . The The oracles are dumb , * No voice or hideous 38 ESSAY ON THE ...
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... verse 580. A view of the torrid zone in SUMMER , verse 626. The rise of fountains and rivers in AUTUMN , verse 781. A man perishing in the snows , in WINTER , verse 277 , and the wolves descending from the Alps , and and a view of ...
... verse 580. A view of the torrid zone in SUMMER , verse 626. The rise of fountains and rivers in AUTUMN , verse 781. A man perishing in the snows , in WINTER , verse 277 , and the wolves descending from the Alps , and and a view of ...
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