An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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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 arisen , 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 arisen , that B 4 ...
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... POPE'S youthful tranflation , I shall select the following passage . He sends a monster horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The pest a virgin's face and bosom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears ...
... POPE'S youthful tranflation , I shall select the following passage . He sends a monster horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The pest a virgin's face and bosom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears ...
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... POPE'S IMITA- TIONS of Seven English Poets , some of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anec- dote must be added ...
... POPE'S IMITA- TIONS of Seven English Poets , some of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anec- dote must be added ...
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... Those little drops of light . Spenser and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whose fair hand Remov'd them from AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
... Those little drops of light . Spenser and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whose fair hand Remov'd them from AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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... POPE observed on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyist , and those who take his imitations amiss , are much in the wrong ; they are very strongly mannered , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo . " - In POPE's ...
... POPE observed on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyist , and those who take his imitations amiss , are much in the wrong ; they are very strongly mannered , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo . " - In POPE's ...
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