An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... rency and vogue to this species of compo- sition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them in VOL . II . the B the purest stile , enlivened with interesting circumstances . Sacchetti 824P81 ESSAY ...
... rency and vogue to this species of compo- sition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them in VOL . II . the B the purest stile , enlivened with interesting circumstances . Sacchetti 824P81 ESSAY ...
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... circumstances have • Machiavel , who possessed the liveliest wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is ...
... circumstances have • Machiavel , who possessed the liveliest wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is ...
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... circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B 4 Chaucer's Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 7 ...
... circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B 4 Chaucer's Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 7 ...
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... circumstance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he versified it . The lines of Pope , in the piece before us , are spirited ...
... circumstance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he versified it . The lines of Pope , in the piece before us , are spirited ...
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... circumstance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be com- pared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies so gradually , and the light revives so imperceptibly ...
... circumstance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be com- pared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies so gradually , and the light revives so imperceptibly ...
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