The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, 3. köideC. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... says , " they would cost him an hour , if he had the leisure , to translate them , there is so much of beauty in the original ; " which was the reason , I sup- pose , why Mr. P. tried his strength with them . Warburton . Ver . 158. And ...
... says , " they would cost him an hour , if he had the leisure , to translate them , there is so much of beauty in the original ; " which was the reason , I sup- pose , why Mr. P. tried his strength with them . Warburton . Ver . 158. And ...
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... says , the arrows sounded in the quiver because the step of the God was hasty and irregular , as of an angry person . Irati describitur incessus , paulo utique inæquabilior . Warton . Ver . 175 . IMITATIONS . " Nec positu variare comas ...
... says , the arrows sounded in the quiver because the step of the God was hasty and irregular , as of an angry person . Irati describitur incessus , paulo utique inæquabilior . Warton . Ver . 175 . IMITATIONS . " Nec positu variare comas ...
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... says Dr. Johnson , seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated Local Poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described , with ...
... says Dr. Johnson , seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated Local Poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described , with ...
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... ( says Mr. Warton in his Hist . of English Poetry , vol . iii . ) the general object of Lord Surrey's passionate sonnets , is commonly said to have lived at Florence , and to have been of the family of the Geraldi of that city . This is a ...
... ( says Mr. Warton in his Hist . of English Poetry , vol . iii . ) the general object of Lord Surrey's passionate sonnets , is commonly said to have lived at Florence , and to have been of the family of the Geraldi of that city . This is a ...
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... ( says Mr. Walpole , vol . iii . p . 59. ) and with less taste , Verrio's exuberant pencil was ready at pouring out gods , goddesses , kings , emperors , and triumphs , over those public surfaces , on which the eye never rests long enough ...
... ( says Mr. Walpole , vol . iii . p . 59. ) and with less taste , Verrio's exuberant pencil was ready at pouring out gods , goddesses , kings , emperors , and triumphs , over those public surfaces , on which the eye never rests long enough ...
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