An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 23
... , PRO- PERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking and writing , Succeeding authors , as it happens in C4 and AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 23 Promifitque diem; tanta dulcedine captos ...
... , PRO- PERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking and writing , Succeeding authors , as it happens in C4 and AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 23 Promifitque diem; tanta dulcedine captos ...
Page 48
... just observation upon vice and folly , that are very remark- able in a perfon fo extremely young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison with Rochester's lines , it will be found , that although the turn ...
... just observation upon vice and folly , that are very remark- able in a perfon fo extremely young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison with Rochester's lines , it will be found , that although the turn ...
Page 56
... just two and fixpence a - piece ; there Pope , there's half a crown for you , and there's another for you , Sir ; for I won't fave any thing by you , I am determined . This was all faid and done with his usual seriousness on fuch ...
... just two and fixpence a - piece ; there Pope , there's half a crown for you , and there's another for you , Sir ; for I won't fave any thing by you , I am determined . This was all faid and done with his usual seriousness on fuch ...
Page 62
... just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . EPIST . I. V. 1 . Ben Jonson begins a poem thus , Wake ! friend , from forth thy lethargy- THIS THIS opening is ...
... just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . EPIST . I. V. 1 . Ben Jonson begins a poem thus , Wake ! friend , from forth thy lethargy- THIS THIS opening is ...
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... just referve : profufe to none , but bountiful to all : never employing in one thing more than enough ; but with exact œconomy retrenching the fuperfluous , and adding force to what is principal in every thing . And is not thought and ...
... just referve : profufe to none , but bountiful to all : never employing in one thing more than enough ; but with exact œconomy retrenching the fuperfluous , and adding force to what is principal in every thing . And is not thought and ...
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