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Joseph Warton. AN ES S AY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF POPE . AN ESSAY ΟΝ ΤНЕ GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
Joseph Warton. AN ES S AY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF POPE . AN ESSAY ΟΝ ΤНЕ GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ... Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B 4 ...
... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ... Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B 4 ...
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... Pope , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One passage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The ...
... Pope , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One passage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The ...
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Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main subject of this work . The picture of Ar- cite in the absence of Emilia , is highly ex- pressive of the deepest distress , and ... POPE . 13 THE image of the Suicide is equally ...
Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main subject of this work . The picture of Ar- cite in the absence of Emilia , is highly ex- pressive of the deepest distress , and ... POPE . 13 THE image of the Suicide is equally ...
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... POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert West , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expressiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first ...
... POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert West , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expressiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first ...
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