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CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the oppofite opinions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous ...
CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the oppofite opinions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous ...
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One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but fwept , like a drag - net , great and fmall . There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ...
One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but fwept , like a drag - net , great and fmall . There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ...
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By that ftrange fatality which feems to difqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticifm he has given , of the reft , in his ...
By that ftrange fatality which feems to difqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticifm he has given , of the reft , in his ...
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I SHALL conclude this fection with a ftory , which POPE himself related , because it is characteristical of his old friend , and I fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.
I SHALL conclude this fection with a ftory , which POPE himself related , because it is characteristical of his old friend , and I fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.
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POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was high , and of dignity , because of its being mixed with argument which of its nature approacheth to profe .
POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was high , and of dignity , because of its being mixed with argument which of its nature approacheth to profe .
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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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