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... to pronounce fo rigorous a sentence , I would fay , that the Romans can boaft of but eight poets who are unexceptionably excellent ; namely , TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATULLUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PROPERTIUS , PHÆDRUS .
... to pronounce fo rigorous a sentence , I would fay , that the Romans can boaft of but eight poets who are unexceptionably excellent ; namely , TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATULLUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PROPERTIUS , PHÆDRUS .
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member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley had a moft happy . talent of imitating the eafy manner of Horace's epiftolary writings ; I must therefore infert a specimen of this , his excellence . Ergo iterum verfus ? dices .
member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley had a moft happy . talent of imitating the eafy manner of Horace's epiftolary writings ; I must therefore infert a specimen of this , his excellence . Ergo iterum verfus ? dices .
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one of his imitations of Horace , has exhibited the real character of Cowley , with delicacy and candour . Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet , His moral pleases , not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic , nay Pindaric art ...
one of his imitations of Horace , has exhibited the real character of Cowley , with delicacy and candour . Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet , His moral pleases , not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic , nay Pindaric art ...
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thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on Man from the fourth of Boileau , and the tenth Satire of Horace , are the only pieces of this profligate nobleman , which modefty or common fense will allow any man to read .
thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on Man from the fourth of Boileau , and the tenth Satire of Horace , are the only pieces of this profligate nobleman , which modefty or common fense will allow any man to read .
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... without difcovering one Horace . THE DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confifts in defcribing the objects * See a Pipe of Tobacco , p .
... without difcovering one Horace . THE DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confifts in defcribing the objects * See a Pipe of Tobacco , p .
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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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