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Page viii
... books , " who rails at human kind from his cr Study ; tho ' what he learns , he speaks ; " and may perhaps advance some gene- " ral maxims , or may be right by " chance . << you " chance . The coxcomb bird , fo viii DEDICATION .
... books , " who rails at human kind from his cr Study ; tho ' what he learns , he speaks ; " and may perhaps advance some gene- " ral maxims , or may be right by " chance . << you " chance . The coxcomb bird , fo viii DEDICATION .
Page x
... perhaps un- willing to speak 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 ...
... perhaps un- willing to speak 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 ...
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... perhaps may be one reafon , among others , why we have never yet feen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or ...
... perhaps may be one reafon , among others , why we have never yet feen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or ...
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... perhaps the dig- nity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and ufeless circumlocutions . 2 See See nature haftes her earlieft wreaths to bring , With AND ...
... perhaps the dig- nity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and ufeless circumlocutions . 2 See See nature haftes her earlieft wreaths to bring , With AND ...
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... perhaps a more proper and interesting fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : terror being a stronger fen fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of ...
... perhaps a more proper and interesting fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : terror being a stronger fen fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of ...
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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