An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is an ...
... circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is an ...
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... circumstance of Dryden and POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 Chaucer's 1 " 1 " Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 7.
... circumstance of Dryden and POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 Chaucer's 1 " 1 " Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 7.
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... circumstance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be compared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies fo gradually , and the light revives fo imperceptibly ...
... circumstance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be compared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies fo gradually , and the light revives fo imperceptibly ...
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... occafioned by a fingular accident * ; he * There is fomething remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY he paid a visit on foot with his friend Sprat 46 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... occafioned by a fingular accident * ; he * There is fomething remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY he paid a visit on foot with his friend Sprat 46 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... circumstance of betraying his own species , is an unexpected and ftriking addition to the foregoing fentiment . Thomson has enlarged on this doctrine , with that tenderness and humanity for which he was fo justly beloved , in his Spring ...
... circumstance of betraying his own species , is an unexpected and ftriking addition to the foregoing fentiment . Thomson has enlarged on this doctrine , with that tenderness and humanity for which he was fo justly beloved , in his Spring ...
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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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