An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always refpected † , found him in an unusual agitation of fpirits , even to a trembling . On enquiring the cause , " I have been up all night , replied the old bard ...
... Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always refpected † , found him in an unusual agitation of fpirits , even to a trembling . On enquiring the cause , " I have been up all night , replied the old bard ...
Page 21
... Bolingbroke to POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert Weft , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain ...
... Bolingbroke to POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert Weft , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain ...
Page 49
... Bolingbroke ufed to relate , that his Great Grandfather Ireton , and Fleetwood , being one day engaged in a private drinking party with Cromwell , and wanting VOL . II . E to ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two cha- racters in the manner AND ...
... Bolingbroke ufed to relate , that his Great Grandfather Ireton , and Fleetwood , being one day engaged in a private drinking party with Cromwell , and wanting VOL . II . E to ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two cha- racters in the manner AND ...
Page 62
... Boling- broke , and drawn up in a series of propo- fitions , which POPE was to verfify and illuftrate . In doing which , our poet , it must be confeffed , left several paffages fo expreffed , as to be favourable to fatalifm and ...
... Boling- broke , and drawn up in a series of propo- fitions , which POPE was to verfify and illuftrate . In doing which , our poet , it must be confeffed , left several paffages fo expreffed , as to be favourable to fatalifm and ...
Page 119
... Bolingbroke HOME AGAIN ; just as a stage - coach ftops at your door to take up à paffenger , " A graceful perfon , * Ver . 373 . Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this ...
... Bolingbroke HOME AGAIN ; just as a stage - coach ftops at your door to take up à paffenger , " A graceful perfon , * Ver . 373 . Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this ...
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