An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who possessed the liveliest wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which ...
... stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who possessed the liveliest wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which ...
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... stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at such a critical season by their favourite knights . Some faint tra ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the ...
... stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at such a critical season by their favourite knights . Some faint tra ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the ...
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... story of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into disgrace by an unsuitable match , is sup- ported in a lively manner POPE has en- deavoured , suitably to familiarize ...
... story of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into disgrace by an unsuitable match , is sup- ported in a lively manner POPE has en- deavoured , suitably to familiarize ...
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... story ; the finest touches of which , it is to be feared , have undergone the usual and unavoidable fate of fatirical writings , that is , not to be tasted or un- derstood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they ...
... story ; the finest touches of which , it is to be feared , have undergone the usual and unavoidable fate of fatirical writings , that is , not to be tasted or un- derstood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they ...
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... story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Cressida , or the complaint of the black knight ; or , above all , on Cambuscan and Canace . From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous ...
... story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Cressida , or the complaint of the black knight ; or , above all , on Cambuscan and Canace . From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous ...
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