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These images , one would have thought , were peculiarly calculated to have struck the fancy of our young imitator with so much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . • Book II . Canto 12.
These images , one would have thought , were peculiarly calculated to have struck the fancy of our young imitator with so much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . • Book II . Canto 12.
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... with dead bodies : This is precisely the Lord Peter of Swift , who presents a piece of bread to his two brothers , and says to them , “ This , my good friends , is excellent Burgundy , these partridges have an admirable flavour .
... with dead bodies : This is precisely the Lord Peter of Swift , who presents a piece of bread to his two brothers , and says to them , “ This , my good friends , is excellent Burgundy , these partridges have an admirable flavour .
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THESE lines are selected as admirable patterns of forcible di & t un . The peculiar and discriminating expressiveness of the epithets distinguished above by italics will be particularly regarded . Perhaps we have no image in the ...
THESE lines are selected as admirable patterns of forcible di & t un . The peculiar and discriminating expressiveness of the epithets distinguished above by italics will be particularly regarded . Perhaps we have no image in the ...
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Such then is the admirable distribution of nature , her adapting and adjusting not only the stuff or matter to the shape and form , and even the shape itself and form , to the circumstance , place , element , or region ; but also the ...
Such then is the admirable distribution of nature , her adapting and adjusting not only the stuff or matter to the shape and form , and even the shape itself and form , to the circumstance , place , element , or region ; but also the ...
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We have here a striking example of that poetic spirit , that harmonious , and varied versification , and that strength of imagery , which conspire to excite our admiration of this beautiful poem * . 28. Proud of an easy conquest all ...
We have here a striking example of that poetic spirit , that harmonious , and varied versification , and that strength of imagery , which conspire to excite our admiration of this beautiful poem * . 28. Proud of an easy conquest all ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 30 Mar 2018 |
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