An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 14
... affecting image in Spenfer , 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 wound yet welled fresh ...
... affecting image in Spenfer , 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 wound yet welled fresh ...
Page 17
... affecting touches by Dryden . I shall select only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the same attitude in which she appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the ...
... affecting touches by Dryden . I shall select only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the same attitude in which she appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the ...
Page 85
... affected ftyle , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quæ nimium corri- pientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft aliquid narrationi fupereffe , quam deeffe . Nam cum fupervacua cum tædio ...
... affected ftyle , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quæ nimium corri- pientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft aliquid narrationi fupereffe , quam deeffe . Nam cum fupervacua cum tædio ...
Page 140
... 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 describe them in a purer ftyle . Both these ftories would have fhone under ...
... 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 describe them in a purer ftyle . Both these ftories would have fhone under ...
Page 143
... AFFECTED , the SOFT - NATURED , the WHIMSICAL , the LEWD and VICIOUS , the WITTY and REFINED . In this com- prehenfive view is perhaps included each fpecies of female folly and absurdity , which is the proper object of ridicule . If ...
... AFFECTED , the SOFT - NATURED , the WHIMSICAL , the LEWD and VICIOUS , the WITTY and REFINED . In this com- prehenfive view is perhaps included each fpecies of female folly and absurdity , which is the proper object of ridicule . If ...
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