An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Some faint tra- ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages , as they are called ; and it is not impoffible , but thefe have been the parents of the Genii in the eastern , and the B ...
... Some faint tra- ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages , as they are called ; and it is not impoffible , but thefe have been the parents of the Genii in the eastern , and the B ...
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... some of the neigh- bouring iflands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a description of the court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inferted in the Dunciad , " As man's meanders , to ...
... some of the neigh- bouring iflands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a description of the court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inferted in the Dunciad , " As man's meanders , to ...
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... Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that conftitute Spenfer's character . I have a peculiar pleafure in mentioning ...
... Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that conftitute Spenfer's character . I have a peculiar pleafure in mentioning ...
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... Some of these writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are ...
... Some of these writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are ...
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... Some fafer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier ifland in the wat❜ry waste , Where flaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Chriftians thirst for gold . TO BE Content's his natural defire , He afks ...
... Some fafer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier ifland in the wat❜ry waste , Where flaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Chriftians thirst for gold . TO BE Content's his natural defire , He afks ...
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