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The picture of Arcite in the absence of Emilia , is highly expressive of the deepest distress , and a compleat image of anguish . He rav'd with all the madness of despair , He roar'd , he beat his breaft , he tore his hair .
The picture of Arcite in the absence of Emilia , is highly expressive of the deepest distress , and a compleat image of anguish . He rav'd with all the madness of despair , He roar'd , he beat his breaft , he tore his hair .
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Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him besides there lay upon the grass A dreary corse , whose life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him besides there lay upon the grass A dreary corse , whose life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
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But above all , the whole description of the entering the lists * , and of the ensuing * The reader is desired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
But above all , the whole description of the entering the lists * , and of the ensuing * The reader is desired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
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The rapidity , and yet the perspicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expressiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a malter , conspire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first ...
The rapidity , and yet the perspicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expressiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a malter , conspire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first ...
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Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and spirit ; but his images are gigantic and outrageous , and his sentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a severe satire on him ...
Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and spirit ; but his images are gigantic and outrageous , and his sentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a severe satire on him ...
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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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