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 fub- jects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients ...
... sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all fub- jects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients ...
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... sense of those writers , so conversant befides in the best models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous method ? The answer , no doubt is , that they were copying the design , or diforder rather of Ariosto , the favourite poet ...
... sense of those writers , so conversant befides in the best models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous method ? The answer , no doubt is , that they were copying the design , or diforder rather of Ariosto , the favourite poet ...
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... sense will allow any man to read . Rochester had much energy in his thoughts and diction , and though the ancient satirists often use great liberty in their expressions ; yet , as the ingenious historian * observes , " their freedom no ...
... sense will allow any man to read . Rochester had much energy in his thoughts and diction , and though the ancient satirists often use great liberty in their expressions ; yet , as the ingenious historian * observes , " their freedom no ...
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... sense of ridicule , so re- tirement more disposes men to reflect on the heinousness of vice ; the fatirical writ- ings therefore of such a nation are sharp and fevere , and we shall find among them many Juvenals , without discovering ...
... sense of ridicule , so re- tirement more disposes men to reflect on the heinousness of vice ; the fatirical writ- ings therefore of such a nation are sharp and fevere , and we shall find among them many Juvenals , without discovering ...
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... sense , how much thinking , how much ob- servation on human life , is condensed to- gether in a small compass . He was so 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- servation on human life , is condensed to- gether in a small compass . He was so ac- customed to confine his thoughts in rhyme , that he tells us , he could express them more shortly this way ...
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