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THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into difgrace by an unfuitable match , is fupported in a lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into difgrace by an unfuitable match , is fupported in a lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
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... have undergone the ufual and unavoidable fate of fatirical writings , that is , not to be tafted or understood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they ftigmatize , are perished and * See Menagiana , Vol . I. p .
... have undergone the ufual and unavoidable fate of fatirical writings , that is , not to be tafted or understood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they ftigmatize , are perished and * See Menagiana , Vol . I. p .
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... I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat* The falling off of his hair , faid a man of wit , had no other ...
... I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat* The falling off of his hair , faid a man of wit , had no other ...
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But it is not unusual for the fame person to fucceed in defcribing externally a distressful character , who may miferably fail in putting proper words in the mouth of fuch a character . In a word , fo much more difficult is DRAMATIC ...
But it is not unusual for the fame person to fucceed in defcribing externally a distressful character , who may miferably fail in putting proper words in the mouth of fuch a character . In a word , fo much more difficult is DRAMATIC ...
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THE firft of these Imitations is of Chaucer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original , as it is the only piece of our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the ...
THE firft of these Imitations is of Chaucer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original , as it is the only piece of our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the ...
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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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