An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 49
... study the history of learning , that the gross licentiousness and applauded debauchery of Charles the Second's court , proved almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the ...
... study the history of learning , that the gross licentiousness and applauded debauchery of Charles the Second's court , proved almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the ...
Page 54
... purest English , Swift answered with his usual roughness- " I could never get the block- head to study his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , says the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS I SHALL Conclude this section with a ...
... purest English , Swift answered with his usual roughness- " I could never get the block- head to study his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , says the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS I SHALL Conclude this section with a ...
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... Study a mite , not comprehend the skies . Which lines at present stand thus , How instinct varies in the grovling fwine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine . * Ver . 251 . Say Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n ...
... Study a mite , not comprehend the skies . Which lines at present stand thus , How instinct varies in the grovling fwine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine . * Ver . 251 . Say Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n ...
Page 84
... studies . The only fault lies , in letting any of those inferior tastes , engross the whole man to the exclusion of the nobler pursuits of vir- tue and humanity * . " We may here apply an elegant observation of Tully , who says in his ...
... studies . The only fault lies , in letting any of those inferior tastes , engross the whole man to the exclusion of the nobler pursuits of vir- tue and humanity * . " We may here apply an elegant observation of Tully , who says in his ...
Page 127
... STUDY life ; " cry the unlettered men of the world : but that world cannot be known merely by that study alone . The dread of pedantry is a characteristic folly of the present age . We adopted it from the French , without confidering ...
... STUDY life ; " cry the unlettered men of the world : but that world cannot be known merely by that study alone . The dread of pedantry is a characteristic folly of the present age . We adopted it from the French , without confidering ...
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