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The cave of Polypheme might furnilh out the ideas of their giants , and Andromedà might give occasion for stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons ; and delivered at such a critical season by their ...
The cave of Polypheme might furnilh out the ideas of their giants , and Andromedà might give occasion for stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons ; and delivered at such a critical season by their ...
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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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I shall add nothing to what I have already said on this subject * ; but only relate the occasion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always ...
I shall add nothing to what I have already said on this subject * ; but only relate the occasion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always ...
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“ Ne sò io s'Aristotele nalicíle a questa età , et vedesse il vaghissimo 1 on this occasion , let us stop a inoment and poeina 3+ ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Spenser has minutely drawn with so much ...
“ Ne sò io s'Aristotele nalicíle a questa età , et vedesse il vaghissimo 1 on this occasion , let us stop a inoment and poeina 3+ ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Spenser has minutely drawn with so much ...
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on this occasion , let us stop a inoment and take one attentive look at the allegorical figures that rise to our view in the following lines ; By that way's side there fe infernal Pain , And fast bcfidc him fat tuinultuous Strife ...
on this occasion , let us stop a inoment and take one attentive look at the allegorical figures that rise to our view in the following lines ; By that way's side there fe infernal Pain , And fast bcfidc him fat tuinultuous Strife ...
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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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