An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the po- pular stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest ...
... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the po- pular stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest ...
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... most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witnefs , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of ...
... most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witnefs , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of ...
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... most mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice ...
... most mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice ...
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Joseph Warton. and I place them last , as I think them the most lofty of any part of Dryden's works . Whilft lift'ning ... most un- rivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 19 and I ...
Joseph Warton. and I place them last , as I think them the most lofty of any part of Dryden's works . Whilft lift'ning ... most un- rivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 19 and I ...
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... is more 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 ...
... is more 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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