An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 23
Page 87
... tion ; tion ; bene- con- very pub- lic fociety , but to be ever ready , according to our rank , to act either the magistrate or the private citizen : that their apathy was no more than a freedom from perturbation , from irrational and ...
... tion ; tion ; bene- con- very pub- lic fociety , but to be ever ready , according to our rank , to act either the magistrate or the private citizen : that their apathy was no more than a freedom from perturbation , from irrational and ...
Page 344
... tion of morality and religion , that I esteem the last part of Swift's Gulliver ( that I mean relative to his Houyhnhnms and Ya- hoos ) to be a worse book to peruse , than those which we forbid , as the most fla- gitious and obfcene ...
... tion of morality and religion , that I esteem the last part of Swift's Gulliver ( that I mean relative to his Houyhnhnms and Ya- hoos ) to be a worse book to peruse , than those which we forbid , as the most fla- gitious and obfcene ...
Page 408
... tion ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock , and Eloifa , can be thought to want imagination , but because his imagina- tion was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it not , and because he gave not so many proofs of ...
... tion ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock , and Eloifa , can be thought to want imagination , but because his imagina- tion was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it not , and because he gave not so many proofs of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abfurd Adamo Addiſon againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe cenfure character circumftance defcription defign Demetrius Phalereus Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiment fhall fhew firft firſt fome fpeaks fpecies fpirit ftrong fubject fuch genius hiftory himſelf Horace Iliad imitation inferted intereſting juſt laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetry Polybius POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed Quintilian reaſoning reprefented ſaid ſay SCENA ſhall ſhould Sophocles ſpeak ſtate Statius ſtriking ſtyle ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe things thofe thoſe tion tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε και