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Page 120
... passage of an excellent writer and accomplished scholar , which is fo very appofite to the pre- fent purpose , that one would think the author had Bolingbroke in his eye , if his valuable work had not been published before the world was ...
... passage of an excellent writer and accomplished scholar , which is fo very appofite to the pre- fent purpose , that one would think the author had Bolingbroke in his eye , if his valuable work had not been published before the world was ...
Page 239
... passages where POPE has copied Vida , he has loft the propriety of the original , which arises from the different colours of the men , at chefs . Thus , when difpers'd a routed army runs , & c . * Non aliter , campis legio se buxea ...
... passages where POPE has copied Vida , he has loft the propriety of the original , which arises from the different colours of the men , at chefs . Thus , when difpers'd a routed army runs , & c . * Non aliter , campis legio se buxea ...
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Abelard Addiſon addreffed alfo alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumftance cloſe compofition Corneille defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegance Eloifa epic poetry epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftanza ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fylphs genius greateſt hiftory himſelf Homer Iliad images imagination inferted inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft Loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion painted pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes prefent profe publiſhed quĉ Quintilian Racine racter raiſed reafon refpect repreſent ſay ſcene ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpecies ſtory ſtrong ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe writing