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If any beauty in this Effay be uncommonly tranfcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few inftances , and thofe pardonable , has occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
If any beauty in this Effay be uncommonly tranfcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few inftances , and thofe pardonable , has occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
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... and his pleasure increased : On the third , he had no doubt remaining , and then he admired the whole * . " THE fubject of this Effay is a vindication of providence , in which the poet propofes * Letters , vol . IX . pag .
... and his pleasure increased : On the third , he had no doubt remaining , and then he admired the whole * . " THE fubject of this Effay is a vindication of providence , in which the poet propofes * Letters , vol . IX . pag .
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The late Lord Bathurst repeatedly affured me , that he had read the whole fcheme of the Effay on Man , in the hand - writing of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a feries of propofitions , which POPE was to verfify and illuftrate .
The late Lord Bathurst repeatedly affured me , that he had read the whole fcheme of the Effay on Man , in the hand - writing of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a feries of propofitions , which POPE was to verfify and illuftrate .
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The tenderness of this ftriking image , and particularly the circumftance in the last line , has an artful effect in alleviating the dryness in the argumentative parts of the Effay , and interefting the reader . 6.
The tenderness of this ftriking image , and particularly the circumftance in the last line , has an artful effect in alleviating the dryness in the argumentative parts of the Effay , and interefting the reader . 6.
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If our fenfe of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is , how would a perpetual noise distract us ; and wę * Locke's Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I , pag . 256 , + Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol .
If our fenfe of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is , how would a perpetual noise distract us ; and wę * Locke's Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I , pag . 256 , + Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol .
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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