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For this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many fucceffive years ...
For this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many fucceffive years ...
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As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat• The ...
As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat• The ...
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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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Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and soberly to attend to the anachronism on so striking an occasion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and propriety is forgot .
Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and soberly to attend to the anachronism on so striking an occasion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and propriety is forgot .
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It must be owned , that his ode on the power of music , which is the chief ornament of this volume , is the most unrivalled C2 rivalled of his compositions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE , 19.
It must be owned , that his ode on the power of music , which is the chief ornament of this volume , is the most unrivalled C2 rivalled of his compositions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE , 19.
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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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