An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... subjects , fo well as the lines of four feet , or the French numbers of Fontaine * . Fontaine is , in truth , the capital and unrivalled writer of comic tales . He generally took his subjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariofto ; but ...
... subjects , fo well as the lines of four feet , or the French numbers of Fontaine * . Fontaine is , in truth , the capital and unrivalled writer of comic tales . He generally took his subjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariofto ; but ...
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... subjects of a more serious and fublime fpecies ; and it were to be wished , POPE had exercised his pencil on the pathetic story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Creffida , or the complaint of the black knight ; or , above ...
... subjects of a more serious and fublime fpecies ; and it were to be wished , POPE had exercised his pencil on the pathetic story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Creffida , or the complaint of the black knight ; or , above ...
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... subjects and anecdotes of his own times , like this courtly author , bids fairer to become popular , than he that is ... subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes ...
... subjects and anecdotes of his own times , like this courtly author , bids fairer to become popular , than he that is ... subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes ...
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... subject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epi- grams than Descriptions . I do not re- member 5 member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley 42 ESSAY ON THE ...
... subject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epi- grams than Descriptions . I do not re- member 5 member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley 42 ESSAY ON THE ...
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... subject , Ad Johannem Rouseium , 1646 , written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum operum ...
... subject , Ad Johannem Rouseium , 1646 , written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum operum ...
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