An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the burlesque ...
... use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the burlesque ...
Page 59
... use perhaps to chuse a low fubject . In this refpect Virgil had the advantage over Lucretius ; the latter , with all his vigour and fublimity of genius , could hardly fatisfy and come up to the grandeur of his theme . POPE labours under ...
... use perhaps to chuse a low fubject . In this refpect Virgil had the advantage over Lucretius ; the latter , with all his vigour and fublimity of genius , could hardly fatisfy and come up to the grandeur of his theme . POPE labours under ...
Page 64
... uses of the rooms below , the lodgements , and the conveniencies of men and stores ? But being ignorant of the in- Τα μερη προς αυτο το όλον δεν σκοπείν , ει συμφωνα και αρμόζτονία εκείνων Plotinus . tent tent or design of all above ...
... uses of the rooms below , the lodgements , and the conveniencies of men and stores ? But being ignorant of the in- Τα μερη προς αυτο το όλον δεν σκοπείν , ει συμφωνα και αρμόζτονία εκείνων Plotinus . tent tent or design of all above ...
Page 65
... uses : when instead of seeing to the highest pendants , we fee only fome lower deck , and are in this dark cafe of flesh , confined even to the hold and meaneft ftation of the veffel * . " I have inferted this paffage at length ...
... uses : when instead of seeing to the highest pendants , we fee only fome lower deck , and are in this dark cafe of flesh , confined even to the hold and meaneft ftation of the veffel * . " I have inferted this paffage at length ...
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... use , were finer optics giv❜n , T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore ‡ ? " If by the help of fuch microscopical eyes , if I may fo call them , a ...
... use , were finer optics giv❜n , T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore ‡ ? " If by the help of fuch microscopical eyes , if I may fo call them , a ...
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