An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... , is fup- ported in a lively manner . POPE has en- deavoured , fuitably to familiarize the state- linefs of our heroic measure , in this ludi- crous linefs 4 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Fairies in the western world. To fay that ...
... , is fup- ported in a lively manner . POPE has en- deavoured , fuitably to familiarize the state- linefs of our heroic measure , in this ludi- crous 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 excufe ... POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that ...
... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excufe ... POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that ...
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... POPE , in the piece before us , are fpirited and eafy , 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 fpirited and eafy , 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 Ar- cite in the absence of Emilia , is highly ex- preffive of the deepest distress ... POPE . 13 tern of POPE, unconnected with the main ...
Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Ar- cite in the absence of Emilia , is highly ex- preffive of the deepest distress ... POPE . 13 tern of POPE, unconnected with the main ...
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... 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 marks of the first ...
... 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 marks of the first ...
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