An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 31
... almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagreeable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a contraft , or ...
... almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagreeable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a contraft , or ...
Page 40
... almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher fcenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 49
... almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the Grand Rebellion , as the gloomy fuperftition , the abfurd cant , and formal hypocrify that difgraced this nation , during the ...
... almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the Grand Rebellion , as the gloomy fuperftition , the abfurd cant , and formal hypocrify that difgraced this nation , during the ...
Page 90
... almost in every one , as Plato obferves in his Pha- don . THIS charitable doctrine of putting can- did conftructions on those actions that ap- * Hutchefon's Nature and Conduct of the Paffions , p . 190 , Ο ουν αδελφος εαν αδικη εντευθεν ...
... almost in every one , as Plato obferves in his Pha- don . THIS charitable doctrine of putting can- did conftructions on those actions that ap- * Hutchefon's Nature and Conduct of the Paffions , p . 190 , Ο ουν αδελφος εαν αδικη εντευθεν ...
Page 97
... almost his very words . " Thus in the feveral orders of terreftrial forms , a refignation is re- quired , a facrifice and mutual yielding of natures one to another . The vegetables by their death , sustain the animals ; and the animal ...
... almost his very words . " Thus in the feveral orders of terreftrial forms , a refignation is re- quired , a facrifice and mutual yielding of natures one to another . The vegetables by their death , sustain the animals ; and the animal ...
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