An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... best models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous method ? The answer , no doubt is , that they were copying the defign , or disorder rather of Arioflo , the favourite poet of that time . " We muft not try the charming fallies ...
... best models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous method ? The answer , no doubt is , that they were copying the defign , or disorder rather of Arioflo , the favourite poet of that time . " We muft not try the charming fallies ...
Page 43
... best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . + Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The penfive Cowley's moral lay .—— Vol . VI . p . 37 . His general preface ; his difcourfe concerning Cromwell ; his ...
... best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . + Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The penfive Cowley's moral lay .—— Vol . VI . p . 37 . His general preface ; his difcourfe concerning Cromwell ; his ...
Page 50
... best tempers . Dorfet poffeffed the rare secret of uniting energy with ease , in his striking compofitions . His verfes to Mr. Edward Howard , to Sir Thomas St. Serfe , his epi- logue to the Tartuffe , his fong written at fea in the ...
... best tempers . Dorfet poffeffed the rare secret of uniting energy with ease , in his striking compofitions . His verfes to Mr. Edward Howard , to Sir Thomas St. Serfe , his epi- logue to the Tartuffe , his fong written at fea in the ...
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... best subjects for poetry . It has been queftioned whether the circumftance of the dog , although ftriking at the first view , is introduced with propriety , as it is known that this * Ver . 99 . animal is not a native of America . The ...
... best subjects for poetry . It has been queftioned whether the circumftance of the dog , although ftriking at the first view , is introduced with propriety , as it is known that this * Ver . 99 . animal is not a native of America . The ...
Page 86
... best writers of that school ; the fum of which quotations , in the nervous language of that critic , appears to be this ; " That the Stoics , in their character of their virtuous man , included rational defire , averfion , and ...
... best writers of that school ; the fum of which quotations , in the nervous language of that critic , appears to be this ; " That the Stoics , in their character of their virtuous man , included rational defire , averfion , and ...
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