An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in thofe books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a clofe connexion with ancient mythology . WE of ...
... subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in thofe books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a clofe connexion with ancient mythology . WE of ...
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... subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true representation of him , for he seems to be more awake and alive to all the foftneffes of nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of ...
... subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true representation of him , for he seems to be more awake and alive to all the foftneffes of nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of ...
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... , and almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... , and almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... subject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epi- grams than Defcriptions . I do not re- member member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley 5 42 ESSAY ON THE ...
... subject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epi- grams than Defcriptions . I do not re- member member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley 5 42 ESSAY ON THE ...
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... subject , Ad Johannem Rouseium , 1646 , written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum operum ...
... subject , Ad Johannem Rouseium , 1646 , written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum operum ...
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