An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... writers of the old romances , from whom Ariosto and Spencer have borrowed so largely , are supposed to have had copious imaginations : but may they not be in- debted , for their invulnerable heroes , their monsters , their enchantments ...
... writers of the old romances , from whom Ariosto and Spencer have borrowed so largely , are supposed to have had copious imaginations : but may they not be in- debted , for their invulnerable heroes , their monsters , their enchantments ...
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... writer of comic tales . He generally took his subjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariosto ; but adorned them with so many natural strokes , with such quaintness in his reflections , and such a dryness and archness of humour , as ...
... writer of comic tales . He generally took his subjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariosto ; but adorned them with so many natural strokes , with such quaintness in his reflections , and such a dryness and archness of humour , as ...
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... writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk ... writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many successive years , yet at present a in AND ...
... writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk ... writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many successive years , yet at present a in AND ...
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... writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocose old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole : and of Saint Jerome part ; Chryfippus , and Tertullian , Ovid's art ...
... writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocose old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole : and of Saint Jerome part ; Chryfippus , and Tertullian , Ovid's art ...
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... writer whose fancy was eminently strong . " Catilina vero , longe a suis , inter hoftium cadavera repertus est , paululum etiam spirans ; ferociamque animi , quam habuerat vivus ,. * Palamon and Arcite , Book I. of the innumerable , that ...
... writer whose fancy was eminently strong . " Catilina vero , longe a suis , inter hoftium cadavera repertus est , paululum etiam spirans ; ferociamque animi , quam habuerat vivus ,. * Palamon and Arcite , Book I. of the innumerable , that ...
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