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Joseph Warton. 824981 DW266 AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS OF POPE . SE CT . VIII . Of JANUARY and MAY , The WIFE of BATH , and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID , and the IMI- TATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . HE first dawnings of ...
Joseph Warton. 824981 DW266 AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS OF POPE . SE CT . VIII . Of JANUARY and MAY , The WIFE of BATH , and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID , and the IMI- TATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . HE first dawnings of ...
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... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excufe . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely fcrupulous , informs us that he would not verfify it on account of its indecency .
... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excufe . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely fcrupulous , informs us that he would not verfify it on account of its indecency .
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... great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have had in fo many fucceffive years , yet at present a in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 9 pf Cowley. "Chaucer is a perpetual foun- ...
... great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have had in fo many fucceffive years , yet at present a in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 9 pf Cowley. "Chaucer is a perpetual foun- ...
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