An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... person who tranflated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat hastam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage . tern tern of POPE ...
... person who tranflated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat hastam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage . tern tern of POPE ...
Page 112
... person , in the eighteenth line , And fled from monarchs , St. John , dwells with thee . For to fly and to dwell , cannot justly be predicated of the same subject , that imme- diately before was defcribed as twining with laurels , and ...
... person , in the eighteenth line , And fled from monarchs , St. John , dwells with thee . For to fly and to dwell , cannot justly be predicated of the same subject , that imme- diately before was defcribed as twining with laurels , and ...
Page 119
... person , * Ver . 373 . + Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this Effay are the following . Vol . iv . octavo edition , p . 223 & p . 324 ; p . 94 of vol . 5 ; p . 388 of ...
... person , * Ver . 373 . + Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this Effay are the following . Vol . iv . octavo edition , p . 223 & p . 324 ; p . 94 of vol . 5 ; p . 388 of ...
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... person that was reading them to her , and called out aloud- " I cannot be fo impofed upon - I fee plainly enough for whom they are designed ; " and abufed POPE most plen- tifully on the subject ; though she was afterwards reconciled to ...
... person that was reading them to her , and called out aloud- " I cannot be fo impofed upon - I fee plainly enough for whom they are designed ; " and abufed POPE most plen- tifully on the subject ; though she was afterwards reconciled to ...
Page 165
... ( like his own Helen standing on the walls of Troy ) points out every person , and thing , accurately and forcibly . All the views * Ver . 399 . M 3 and and prospects he lays before us , appear as fully AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 165.
... ( like his own Helen standing on the walls of Troy ) points out every person , and thing , accurately and forcibly . All the views * Ver . 399 . M 3 and and prospects he lays before us , appear as fully AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 165.
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