An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 58
... elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from some beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic ...
... elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from some beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic ...
Page 59
Joseph Warton. cise and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has many metaphors and images , art- fully interspersed in the driest passages , which stood most in need of such orna- iments . Nevertheless there are too ... elegant. ...
Joseph Warton. cise and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has many metaphors and images , art- fully interspersed in the driest passages , which stood most in need of such orna- iments . Nevertheless there are too ... elegant. ...
Page 126
... elegant and witty Alma , RICHARDSON in his Clarissa , and FIELDING in his Tom Jones , ( comic writers writers are not here included ) have shewn a profound 126 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Of the Moral ESSAYS in five EPISTLES ...
... elegant and witty Alma , RICHARDSON in his Clarissa , and FIELDING in his Tom Jones , ( comic writers writers are not here included ) have shewn a profound 126 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Of the Moral ESSAYS in five EPISTLES ...
Page 147
... elegant as any thing in our language . After reading these pieces , fo full of a knowledge of the world , one is at a lofs to know what Mr. POPE could mean by saying , that though Young was a man of genius , yet that he wanted common ...
... elegant as any thing in our language . After reading these pieces , fo full of a knowledge of the world , one is at a lofs to know what Mr. POPE could mean by saying , that though Young was a man of genius , yet that he wanted common ...
Page 172
... elegant critic among the ancients . Proculdubio qui dicit expugnatam esse civi- tatem , complectitur omnia quæcunque talis fortuna recipit : sed in affectus minus penetrat brevis hic velut nuntius . At fi aperias hæc quæ. * As much as ...
... elegant critic among the ancients . Proculdubio qui dicit expugnatam esse civi- tatem , complectitur omnia quæcunque talis fortuna recipit : sed in affectus minus penetrat brevis hic velut nuntius . At fi aperias hæc quæ. * As much as ...
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