An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all sub- jects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients ...
... sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all sub- jects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients ...
Page 51
... sense of ridicule , so re- tirement more difpofes men to reflect on the heinoufnefs of vice ; the fatirical writ- ings therefore of fuch a nation are sharp and fevere , and we fhall find among them many Juvenals , without discovering ...
... sense of ridicule , so re- tirement more difpofes men to reflect on the heinoufnefs of vice ; the fatirical writ- ings therefore of fuch a nation are sharp and fevere , and we fhall find among them many Juvenals , without discovering ...
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... sense , how much thinking , how much ob- fervation on human life , is condensed to- gether in a small compafs . He was fo ac- customed to confine his thoughts in rhyme , that he tells us , he could express them more shortly this way ...
... sense , how much thinking , how much ob- fervation on human life , is condensed to- gether in a small compafs . He was fo ac- customed to confine his thoughts in rhyme , that he tells us , he could express them more shortly this way ...
Page 146
... of those many infignificant and useless beings , Who want , as thro ' blank life they dream along , Sense to be right , and paffion to be wrong ; as as fays the ingenious author of the Uni- verfal Paffion 146 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... of those many infignificant and useless beings , Who want , as thro ' blank life they dream along , Sense to be right , and paffion to be wrong ; as as fays the ingenious author of the Uni- verfal Paffion 146 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 147
... one is at a lofs to know what Mr. POPE could mean by saying , that though Young was a man of genius , yet that he wanted common sense . L 2 POPE . POPE . Dr. Young was one of the most amiable AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 147.
... one is at a lofs to know what Mr. POPE could mean by saying , that though Young was a man of genius , yet that he wanted common sense . L 2 POPE . POPE . Dr. Young was one of the most amiable AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 147.
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