An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the ... expression , fregit fubfellia verfu . One cannot forbear re- flecting on the short duration of a true taste in ...
... expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the ... expression , fregit fubfellia verfu . One cannot forbear re- flecting on the short duration of a true taste in ...
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... expressing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Juffit et extendi campos , of the latin poet ; that he excels in the propriety of his fimiles and ...
... expressing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Juffit et extendi campos , of the latin poet ; that he excels in the propriety of his fimiles and ...
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... expressions , than in catch- ing his real manner . Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that simplicity , that tenderness of sentiment , and those little touches of nature , that constitute Spenser's ...
... expressions , than in catch- ing his real manner . Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that simplicity , that tenderness of sentiment , and those little touches of nature , that constitute Spenser's ...
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... expressions ; yet , as the ingenious historian * observes , " their freedom no more resembles the licence of Rochester , than the nakedness of an Indian does that of a common prostitute . " POPE in this imitation has discovered a fund ...
... expressions ; yet , as the ingenious historian * observes , " their freedom no more resembles the licence of Rochester , than the nakedness of an Indian does that of a common prostitute . " POPE in this imitation has discovered a fund ...
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... expression of POPE , as not being the purest English , Swift answered with his usual roughness- " I could never get the block- head to study his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , says the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS I ...
... expression of POPE , as not being the purest English , Swift answered with his usual roughness- " I could never get the block- head to study his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , says the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS I ...
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