An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 17
... fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the 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 ...
... fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the 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 ...
Page 18
... fhall dare to give any disturbance to those bookfellers to whom this privilege is granted . There is also a decree of the inquifition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caused some al- terations to be made ...
... fhall dare to give any disturbance to those bookfellers to whom this privilege is granted . There is also a decree of the inquifition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caused some al- terations to be made ...
Page 26
... fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on whom POPE employed some of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the ...
... fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on whom POPE employed some of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the ...
Page 51
... fhall find among them many Juvenals , without discovering one Horace . THE DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confifts in defcribing the ...
... fhall find among them many Juvenals , without discovering one Horace . THE DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confifts in defcribing the ...
Page 54
... fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.- " Dr. Swift has an odd blunt way that is mistaken by strangers for ill - nature ; it is fo odd that there is no defcribing it but by facts + . I'll tell ...
... fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.- " Dr. Swift has an odd blunt way that is mistaken by strangers for ill - nature ; it is fo odd that there is no defcribing it but by facts + . I'll tell ...
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