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... Devours young babes before their parent's eyes , And feeds and thrives on public miferies * . Oedipus , in Statius , behaves with the fury B. I. ver . 701 . of of a bluftering bully ; in Sophocles * , with AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
... Devours young babes before their parent's eyes , And feeds and thrives on public miferies * . Oedipus , in Statius , behaves with the fury B. I. ver . 701 . of of a bluftering bully ; in Sophocles * , with AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
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These images , one would have thought , were peculiarly calculated to have struck the fancy of our young imitator with fo much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travefty of them . * Book II . Canto 12.
These images , one would have thought , were peculiarly calculated to have struck the fancy of our young imitator with fo much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travefty of them . * Book II . Canto 12.
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POPE in this imitation has difcovered a fund of folid fenfe , and just observation upon * vice and folly , that are very remarkable in a perfon fo extremely young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison ...
POPE in this imitation has difcovered a fund of folid fenfe , and just observation upon * vice and folly , that are very remarkable in a perfon fo extremely young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison ...
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Swift , POPE , Thomfon , Young , Phillips , Cibber . Some of these writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his ...
Swift , POPE , Thomfon , Young , Phillips , Cibber . Some of these writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his ...
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On its first publication , POPE did not own it , and it was given by the public to Lord Paget , Dr. Young , Dr. Defaguliers , and others . Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in " I confefs I did never ...
On its first publication , POPE did not own it , and it was given by the public to Lord Paget , Dr. Young , Dr. Defaguliers , and others . Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in " I confefs I did never ...
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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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