An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... fame time , adapted to the furious nature of the God to whom it belonged ; and carries with it a barbarous and tremendous idea . * These paffages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being ...
... fame time , adapted to the furious nature of the God to whom it belonged ; and carries with it a barbarous and tremendous idea . * These paffages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being ...
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... fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , foleinn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief destroys : VOL . II . C For For bending o'er the cup , the tears she shed AND WRITINGS OF ...
... fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , foleinn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief destroys : VOL . II . C For For bending o'er the cup , the tears she shed AND WRITINGS OF ...
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... temperate . See verfe 433 down to verse 472 , of the fame most en- chanting tragedy . chufe chufe rather to account for Ovid's falling into fo blameable 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS of a bluftering bully; in Sophocles*, with ...
... temperate . See verfe 433 down to verse 472 , of the fame most en- chanting tragedy . chufe chufe rather to account for Ovid's falling into fo blameable 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS of a bluftering bully; in Sophocles*, with ...
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... fame volume . POPE † , in * Settle was affifted in writing the Anti - Achitophel by Clifford , and others the best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . ↑ Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The ...
... fame volume . POPE † , in * Settle was affifted in writing the Anti - Achitophel by Clifford , and others the best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . ↑ Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The ...
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... fame fpecies with the piece before us , In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been fcrutinized in ...
... fame fpecies with the piece before us , In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been fcrutinized in ...
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