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posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as is also the elegant Vision of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * ...
posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as is also the elegant Vision of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * ...
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... tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of versification , and a certain pleasing melancholy in his sentiments , the constant companion of an elegant taste , that casts a delicacy and grace over all his compositions .
... tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of versification , and a certain pleasing melancholy in his sentiments , the constant companion of an elegant taste , that casts a delicacy and grace over all his compositions .
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ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two cha . racters in the manner of the Earl of Dorset , an elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the severity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that ...
ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two cha . racters in the manner of the Earl of Dorset , an elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the severity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that ...
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1 serving Health , the Fleece , the Religion of Racine the younger , the elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of Stay and BosCOVICK Covick , and the philosophical poem before to which , if we may ...
1 serving Health , the Fleece , the Religion of Racine the younger , the elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of Stay and BosCOVICK Covick , and the philosophical poem before to which , if we may ...
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cise and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has many metaphors and images , artfully interspersed in the driest passages , which stood most in need of such ornainents . Nevertheless there are too many lines , in this performance ...
cise and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has many metaphors and images , artfully interspersed in the driest passages , which stood most in need of such ornainents . Nevertheless there are too many lines , in this performance ...
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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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