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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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... with dead bodies : This is precisely the Lord Peter of Swift , who presents a piece of bread to his two brothers , and fays to them , This , my good friends , is excellent Burgundy , these partridges have an admirable flavour .
... with dead bodies : This is precisely the Lord Peter of Swift , who presents a piece of bread to his two brothers , and fays to them , This , my good friends , is excellent Burgundy , these partridges have an admirable flavour .
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7 THESE lines are selected as admirable patterns of forcible diction . The peculiar and difcriminating expreffiveness of the epithets diftinguished above by italics will be particularly regarded . Perhaps we have no image in the ...
7 THESE lines are selected as admirable patterns of forcible diction . The peculiar and difcriminating expreffiveness of the epithets diftinguished above by italics will be particularly regarded . Perhaps we have no image in the ...
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Such then is the admirable diftribution of nature , her adapting and adjusting not only the ftuff or matter to the shape and form , and even the shape itself and form , to the circumftance , place , element , or region ; but also the ...
Such then is the admirable diftribution of nature , her adapting and adjusting not only the ftuff or matter to the shape and form , and even the shape itself and form , to the circumftance , place , element , or region ; but also the ...
Page 88
We have here a striking example of that poetic fpirit , that harmonious , and varied verfification , and that ftrength of imagery , which confpire to excite our admiration of this beautiful poem * , 28. Proud of an eafy conqueft all ...
We have here a striking example of that poetic fpirit , that harmonious , and varied verfification , and that ftrength of imagery , which confpire to excite our admiration of this beautiful poem * , 28. Proud of an eafy conqueft all ...
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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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