An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... shall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country desolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beast nor human kind repair ; The ...
... shall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country desolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beast nor human kind repair ; The ...
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... shall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : " It is * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious ftories . a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
... shall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : " It is * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious ftories . a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
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... shall add nothing to what I have already said on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion * and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always ...
... shall add nothing to what I have already said on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion * and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always ...
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... shall select the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears . } Guards her black front , and hiffes ...
... shall select the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears . } Guards her black front , and hiffes ...
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... shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond ; it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece ...
... shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond ; it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece ...
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