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Page viii
... paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inversions and transpo- fitions will not disguise and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre , like a diamond , unfet , and thrown back into the rubbish of the ...
... paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inversions and transpo- fitions will not disguise and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre , like a diamond , unfet , and thrown back into the rubbish of the ...
Page ix
... paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil ...
... paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil ...
Page x
... out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as ex- actly characterizes POPE as it does his model model Boileau , for whom it was origi- nally defigned * x DEDICATION .
... out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as ex- actly characterizes POPE as it does his model model Boileau , for whom it was origi- nally defigned * x DEDICATION .
Page xv
... any particular decoration to his style ; he only uses French words , when the force and meaning of the paffages fo quoted depend on the pe- culiar turn and idiom of the original AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS O - F.
... any particular decoration to his style ; he only uses French words , when the force and meaning of the paffages fo quoted depend on the pe- culiar turn and idiom of the original AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS O - F.
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... paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranf- lator Virgil , he has merited but little plause . It may not be unentertaining to see Paft . ii . ver . 21 . § Ibid . ver . 65 . + Paft . iii . ver . 24 . Paft ...
... paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranf- lator Virgil , he has merited but little plause . It may not be unentertaining to see Paft . ii . ver . 21 . § Ibid . ver . 65 . + Paft . iii . ver . 24 . Paft ...
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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 quæ 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