An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Joseph Warton. For bending o'er the cup , the tears she shed Seem'd by the posture to discharge her head , O'erfill'd before ; and oft ( her mouth apply'd To the cold heart ) fhe kiss'd at once and cry'd . There is an incomparable ...
Joseph Warton. For bending o'er the cup , the tears she shed Seem'd by the posture to discharge her head , O'erfill'd before ; and oft ( her mouth apply'd To the cold heart ) fhe kiss'd at once and cry'd . There is an incomparable ...
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... seems to be more awake and alive to all the softnesses of nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagrecable founds , in the following stanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to ...
... seems to be more awake and alive to all the softnesses of nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagrecable founds , in the following stanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to ...
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... seems to have remarkably laboured his ftyle , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practifed the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precisely suited each ...
... seems to have remarkably laboured his ftyle , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practifed the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precisely suited each ...
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Joseph Warton. the organs of our body to make us happy , seems likewise to have beftowed pride on us , on purpose , as it were , to fave us the pain of knowing our imperfections * . ' Un fot en ecrivant fait tout avec plaifir . Il n'a ...
Joseph Warton. the organs of our body to make us happy , seems likewise to have beftowed pride on us , on purpose , as it were , to fave us the pain of knowing our imperfections * . ' Un fot en ecrivant fait tout avec plaifir . Il n'a ...
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... seems to have dropped that idea in the feventh line , where the deity is fuddenly transformed into a plant ; from thence this metaphor of a vegetable is carried on dif- tinctly through the eleven fucceeding lines , till he fuddenly ...
... seems to have dropped that idea in the feventh line , where the deity is fuddenly transformed into a plant ; from thence this metaphor of a vegetable is carried on dif- tinctly through the eleven fucceeding lines , till he fuddenly ...
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