An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... characters of it's two shepherds are well fupported , and happily contrasted : and the last has expref- fively painted the changeful resolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt ex- clamations , of a disappointed and ...
... characters of it's two shepherds are well fupported , and happily contrasted : and the last has expref- fively painted the changeful resolutions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and abrupt ex- clamations , of a disappointed and ...
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... character of this prince has been misrepre- fented , and his oppreffions magnified . The law of the curfeu - bell , by which every in- habitant of England was obliged to extinguish his fire and candles at eight in the evening , has been ...
... character of this prince has been misrepre- fented , and his oppreffions magnified . The law of the curfeu - bell , by which every in- habitant of England was obliged to extinguish his fire and candles at eight in the evening , has been ...
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... character . Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfer- vations : his descriptions have ...
... character . Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfer- vations : his descriptions have ...
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... character , might be ftill aug- mented by an examination and developement of the beauties in the Loves of the birds , in SPRING , verfe 580. A view of the torrid zone in SUMMER , verfe 626. The rife of fountains and rivers in AUTUMN ...
... character , might be ftill aug- mented by an examination and developement of the beauties in the Loves of the birds , in SPRING , verfe 580. A view of the torrid zone in SUMMER , verfe 626. The rife of fountains and rivers in AUTUMN ...
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... characters , manners , and fen- timents . I may however remind such con- temners of it , that , in a sister - art , landschape- painting claims the very next rank to history- painting ; being ever preferred to fingle por- traits , to ...
... characters , manners , and fen- timents . I may however remind such con- temners of it , that , in a sister - art , landschape- painting claims the very next rank to history- painting ; being ever preferred to fingle por- traits , to ...
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