An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which fo few can pro- perly judge . FdR one perfon , who can adequately relish , and enjoy , a work of imagination , twenty are to be found who can ...
... writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which fo few can pro- perly judge . FdR one perfon , who can adequately relish , and enjoy , a work of imagination , twenty are to be found who can ...
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... writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abundant to be real , referred them to the fictitious and imaginary fcenes of a golden age . A MIXTURE of British and Grecian ideas may justly be deemed a blemish in the PASTORALS of POPE ...
... writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abundant to be real , referred them to the fictitious and imaginary fcenes of a golden age . A MIXTURE of British and Grecian ideas may justly be deemed a blemish in the PASTORALS of POPE ...
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... writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master . If it fhould be objected , that the barrenness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the Bucolics of ...
... writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master . If it fhould be objected , that the barrenness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the Bucolics of ...
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... writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention ...
... writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention ...
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