An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the second ; it is a defcription of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece , would ...
... speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the second ; it is a defcription of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece , would ...
Page 38
... Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a defign of giving a taste of all the Greek poets ; I would have tranflated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have ...
... Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a defign of giving a taste of all the Greek poets ; I would have tranflated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have ...
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... speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great injury to the harmony of the line , but also , to the reafoning of the context . * Ouevres de Voltaire . Tom . iv . pag . 227 . + Ver . 81 ...
... speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great injury to the harmony of the line , but also , to the reafoning of the context . * Ouevres de Voltaire . Tom . iv . pag . 227 . + Ver . 81 ...
Page 85
... speaking of which POPE was fond , ftudious as he was of brevity , and which often betrayed him into the fame fault : Paffions , that court an aim , is furely a strange expreffion . 25. In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ...
... speaking of which POPE was fond , ftudious as he was of brevity , and which often betrayed him into the fame fault : Paffions , that court an aim , is furely a strange expreffion . 25. In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ...
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... ; if it be not a kind of profanation to speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- Spotic government . * Ver . 90 . 7. Alas 7. Alas in truth the man but chang'd his mind 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... ; if it be not a kind of profanation to speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- Spotic government . * Ver . 90 . 7. Alas 7. Alas in truth the man but chang'd his mind 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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