An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756-1782)Garland Pub., 1974 - Verse satire, English |
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... piece of our author's works that is loofe and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the prefent edition , I fhall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond it is a description of an alley of ...
... piece of our author's works that is loofe and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the prefent edition , I fhall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond it is a description of an alley of ...
Page 120
... piece entitled A Vindication of Natural Society ; that many , even acute readers , mistook it for , a genuine difcourfe of the author whom it was intended to expofe ; it is indeed a mafter - piece of irony . - No writings that raised fo ...
... piece entitled A Vindication of Natural Society ; that many , even acute readers , mistook it for , a genuine difcourfe of the author whom it was intended to expofe ; it is indeed a mafter - piece of irony . - No writings that raised fo ...
Page 351
... piece of exquifite criticism : PALLAS Te hoc Vulnere , PALLAS Immolat- VIRG . The Iphigenie of Racine , it must be owned , is an in- comparable piece ; it is chiefly fo , from Racine's attentive ftudy of the pathetic Euripides ...
... piece of exquifite criticism : PALLAS Te hoc Vulnere , PALLAS Immolat- VIRG . The Iphigenie of Racine , it must be owned , is an in- comparable piece ; it is chiefly fo , from Racine's attentive ftudy of the pathetic Euripides ...
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