“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 1. köideFredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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... most ancient fort of poetry was probably paftoral b ) , It is natural to imagine , that the leifure of thofe ancient fhepherds adınitting and inviting fome diverfion , none was fo 4 ) Written at fixteen years of age . b ) Fontenelle's ...
... most ancient fort of poetry was probably paftoral b ) , It is natural to imagine , that the leifure of thofe ancient fhepherds adınitting and inviting fome diverfion , none was fo 4 ) Written at fixteen years of age . b ) Fontenelle's ...
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... most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in fome few points . His Eclogues are fomewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He ...
... most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in fome few points . His Eclogues are fomewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He ...
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... most other kinds confifts in the ftrength and fulness of both . In a letter of his to Mr. Walsh about this time we find an enu- meration of feveral niceties in Verfification , which perhaps have never been frictly obferved in any ...
... most other kinds confifts in the ftrength and fulness of both . In a letter of his to Mr. Walsh about this time we find an enu- meration of feveral niceties in Verfification , which perhaps have never been frictly obferved in any ...
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... most of which he compos'd very young , and propos'd Waller as his model . IMITATIONS . VER 47. A milk - white bull ) Virg . - Pafcite taurum , Qui cornu petat , & pedibus jam fpargat arenam . While a kind glance at her purfuer flies ...
... most of which he compos'd very young , and propos'd Waller as his model . IMITATIONS . VER 47. A milk - white bull ) Virg . - Pafcite taurum , Qui cornu petat , & pedibus jam fpargat arenam . While a kind glance at her purfuer flies ...
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... most celebrated were the Plain Dealer and Country - Wife . Не was a writer of infinite fpirit , fatire , and wit . The only objection made to him was that he had too much . However he was followed in the fame way by Mr. Congreve ; tho ...
... most celebrated were the Plain Dealer and Country - Wife . Не was a writer of infinite fpirit , fatire , and wit . The only objection made to him was that he had too much . However he was followed in the fame way by Mr. Congreve ; tho ...
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