An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... STATIUS and OVID , and the IMITATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . TH HE firft dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He collected many ...
... STATIUS and OVID , and the IMITATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . TH HE firft dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He collected many ...
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... Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were suffered ever to look * Richard Berenger ...
... Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were suffered ever to look * Richard Berenger ...
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... Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and fpirit ; but his images are gigantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him ...
... Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and fpirit ; but his images are gigantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him ...
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... Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily captivated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of numbers the noisy roughness of which , may be particularly alluded to in the expreffion ...
... Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily captivated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of numbers the noisy roughness of which , may be particularly alluded to in the expreffion ...
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... Statius , and for a proof of the strength and spirit of POPE's youthful translation , I shall felect the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and ...
... Statius , and for a proof of the strength and spirit of POPE's youthful translation , I shall felect the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and ...
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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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