An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... is fupported in a lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize the statelinefs of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative ; linefs 4 ++ ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Fairies in the western world. To fay that ...
... is fupported in a lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize the statelinefs of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative ; linefs 4 ++ ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Fairies in the western world. To fay that ...
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... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ... POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 ...
... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ... POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 ...
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... POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The ...
... POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The ...
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Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Arcite in the absence of Emilia , is highly expreffive of the deepest distress , and a compleat image of anguish . He rav'd with all ... POPE . 13.
Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Arcite in the absence of Emilia , is highly expreffive of the deepest distress , and a compleat image of anguish . He rav'd with all ... POPE . 13.
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