An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 38
... addreffed , on her finging a fong of his compofing .. Chloris , yourself you fo excell , When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought , That like a spirit with this fpell Of my own teaching I am caught . * Speaking of his imitations , POPE ...
... addreffed , on her finging a fong of his compofing .. Chloris , yourself you fo excell , When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought , That like a spirit with this fpell Of my own teaching I am caught . * Speaking of his imitations , POPE ...
Page 96
... addreffed , the latter , fqueezing his hand with earneft- nefs , faid- " This is one of the best truths you have ever uttered . I am not one of those sublime geniuses of whom you fpeak ; but fuch as I am , I must declare I have never ...
... addreffed , the latter , fqueezing his hand with earneft- nefs , faid- " This is one of the best truths you have ever uttered . I am not one of those sublime geniuses of whom you fpeak ; but fuch as I am , I must declare I have never ...
Page 158
... addreffed to himself , in this edition . converted into a dialogue ; in which , " faid he , " I perceive I really make but a fhabby and indifferent figure , and contribute very little to the fpirit of the dialogue , if it must be a ...
... addreffed to himself , in this edition . converted into a dialogue ; in which , " faid he , " I perceive I really make but a fhabby and indifferent figure , and contribute very little to the fpirit of the dialogue , if it must be a ...
Page 163
... addreffed to CICERO : this being the method the French philo- fopher took to acquaint us with his own thoughts . Questions fur l'Encyclopedie , 9 partie , p . 348. So inconclufive and unphilofophical an affertion , deferves no ferious ...
... addreffed to CICERO : this being the method the French philo- fopher took to acquaint us with his own thoughts . Questions fur l'Encyclopedie , 9 partie , p . 348. So inconclufive and unphilofophical an affertion , deferves no ferious ...
Page 191
... addreffed to the Imitator of Horace * . The Duke , though at firft alarmed , was , it is faid , afterwards convinced of our author's inno- cence . I have thought it not improper to infert at length the following letter , as it contains ...
... addreffed to the Imitator of Horace * . The Duke , though at firft alarmed , was , it is faid , afterwards convinced of our author's inno- cence . I have thought it not improper to infert at length the following letter , as it contains ...
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abfurd Adamo Addiſon addreffed againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe cenfure character circumftance defcription defign Demetrius Phalereus Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiment fhall fhew fhould finiſhed firft firſt fome fpeaking fpecies fpirit ftill ftriking ftyle fubject fuch fuperior genius hiftory himſelf Horace Houſe humour Iliad imitation inferted juft laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed Quintilian reafon reprefented rife ſay SCENA ſhall Sophocles ſpeak ſtate Statius ſtyle Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thofe thoſe tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε και