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Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
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THE tale of Sigifinonda and Guifcardo is heightened with many new and affecting touches by Dryden . I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of ...
THE tale of Sigifinonda and Guifcardo is heightened with many new and affecting touches by Dryden . I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of ...
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And yet , Fontenelle , whom the French accufe of introducing the abrupt , affected style , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quæ nimium corripientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft ...
And yet , Fontenelle , whom the French accufe of introducing the abrupt , affected style , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quæ nimium corripientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft ...
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The priest who attended him in his last moments , afked him if he was not affected with the description he gave him of the joys of heaven ? By no means , answered the incorrigible bard , I defire to hear no more of them , if you cannot ...
The priest who attended him in his last moments , afked him if he was not affected with the description he gave him of the joys of heaven ? By no means , answered the incorrigible bard , I defire to hear no more of them , if you cannot ...
Page 143
And this he exemplifies in the contrarieties that may be discovered in the characters of the AFFECTED , the SOFT - NATURED , the WHIMSICAL , the LEWD and VICIOUS , the WITTY and REFINED . In this comprehenfive view is perhaps included ...
And this he exemplifies in the contrarieties that may be discovered in the characters of the AFFECTED , the SOFT - NATURED , the WHIMSICAL , the LEWD and VICIOUS , the WITTY and REFINED . In this comprehenfive view is perhaps included ...
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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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