An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 31
... almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagrecable founds , in the following stanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a contrast , or ...
... almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagrecable founds , in the following stanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a contrast , or ...
Page 40
... almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 49
... almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the Grand Rebellion , as the gloomy fuperftition , the absurd cant , and formal hypocrify that disgraced this nation , during the ...
... almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the Grand Rebellion , as the gloomy fuperftition , the absurd cant , and formal hypocrify that disgraced this nation , during the ...
Page 77
... almost tempted to re- tract an assertion in the beginning of this work , that there is nothing transcendently fublime in POPE . These lines have all the energy and harmony that can be given to rhyme . They bear fo marvellous a fimi ...
... almost tempted to re- tract an assertion in the beginning of this work , that there is nothing transcendently fublime in POPE . These lines have all the energy and harmony that can be given to rhyme . They bear fo marvellous a fimi ...
Page 90
... almost in every one , as Plato obferves in his Phæ- don . THIS charitable doctrine of putting can- did constructions on thofe actions that ap- • Hutchefon's Nature and Conduct of the Paffions , p . 190 . Ο ουν αδελφος εαν αδικη εντευθεν ...
... almost in every one , as Plato obferves in his Phæ- don . THIS charitable doctrine of putting can- did constructions on thofe actions that ap- • Hutchefon's Nature and Conduct of the Paffions , p . 190 . Ο ουν αδελφος εαν αδικη εντευθεν ...
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