An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... sentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem ...
... sentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem ...
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... sentiments , the constant companion of an elegant taste , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compositions . To imitate Spenfer on a subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true representation of him , for ...
... sentiments , the constant companion of an elegant taste , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compositions . To imitate Spenfer on a subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true representation of him , for ...
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... sentiment which I had entertained many years ago . " " Vous vous étonnez que Dieu ait fait l'homme fi borné , si ignorant , fi peu heureux . Que ne vous étonnez - vous , qu'il ne l'ait pas fait plus borné , plus ignorant , & plus mal ...
... sentiment which I had entertained many years ago . " " Vous vous étonnez que Dieu ait fait l'homme fi borné , si ignorant , fi peu heureux . Que ne vous étonnez - vous , qu'il ne l'ait pas fait plus borné , plus ignorant , & plus mal ...
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... sentiment in the words of a writer , whose friendship I esteem to be no fmall happiness and honour . " Teach us each to regard himself , but as a part of this * Ver . 285 . great great whole ; a part which for its welfare we AND ...
... sentiment in the words of a writer , whose friendship I esteem to be no fmall happiness and honour . " Teach us each to regard himself , but as a part of this * Ver . 285 . great great whole ; a part which for its welfare we AND ...
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... sentiment , that the great poet had his eye on Plato ; ότι ανθρωπων ὁ σοφώτατος προς θεον πιθηκος φανεῖται . But I am more inclined to think that POPE bor- rowed it from a passage in the zodiac of Palingenius , which the abovementioned ...
... sentiment , that the great poet had his eye on Plato ; ότι ανθρωπων ὁ σοφώτατος προς θεον πιθηκος φανεῖται . But I am more inclined to think that POPE bor- rowed it from a passage in the zodiac of Palingenius , which the abovementioned ...
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