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Page iv
... should feem fuffici- ently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but what traces have they left of PURE POETRY ? It ...
... should feem fuffici- ently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but what traces have they left of PURE POETRY ? It ...
Page vii
... should ever have been mistaken , when Horace has taken particular and repeated pains , to fettle and adjust the opinion in queftion . He has more than once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic ...
... should ever have been mistaken , when Horace has taken particular and repeated pains , to fettle and adjust the opinion in queftion . He has more than once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic ...
Page xi
... should be ranked , such as poffeffed the true 2 , poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . 1 At At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , DEDICATION . xi.
... should be ranked , such as poffeffed the true 2 , poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . 1 At At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , DEDICATION . xi.
Page 5
... one , may it not be asked , why he should speak , the scene lying in Windfor- Idyll . i . ver . 1 . + Paft . iv . ver . 1 . B 3 ↑ Paft . ii . Foreft ,卷 Foreft , of the SULTRY SIRIUS , of the GRATEFUL AND WRITINGS OF POPE , 5.
... one , may it not be asked , why he should speak , the scene lying in Windfor- Idyll . i . ver . 1 . + Paft . iv . ver . 1 . B 3 ↑ Paft . ii . Foreft ,卷 Foreft , of the SULTRY SIRIUS , of the GRATEFUL AND WRITINGS OF POPE , 5.
Page 9
... should be objected , that the barren- ness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the Bucolics of Virgil , it may be answered , that whatever may be determined of the rest , yet the first and ...
... should be objected , that the barren- ness of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the Bucolics of Virgil , it may be answered , that whatever may be determined of the rest , yet the first and ...
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