An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... descriptions of per- sons to those of things , we shall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is situated with propriety , in a country defolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape was a forest wide and bare ...
... descriptions of per- sons to those of things , we shall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is situated with propriety , in a country defolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape was a forest wide and bare ...
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... description of the entering the lists * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boc- cace , and it might be worth examining how much Dryden ...
... description of the entering the lists * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boc- cace , and it might be worth examining how much Dryden ...
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... description of the court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inferted in the Dunciad , " As man's meanders , to the vital spring " Roll all their tides , then back their circles bring , was ...
... description of the court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inferted in the Dunciad , " As man's meanders , to the vital spring " Roll all their tides , then back their circles bring , was ...
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... imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epi- grams than Descriptions . I do not re- member member to have seen it enough obferved , that Cowley 5 42 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS In the lines on a lady weeping, you might ...
... imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epi- grams than Descriptions . I do not re- member member to have seen it enough obferved , that Cowley 5 42 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS In the lines on a lady weeping, you might ...
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... DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confists in describing the objects } * See a Pipe of Tobacco , p . 282 , vol . 2. Dodsley's Miscell , where ...
... DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confists in describing the objects } * See a Pipe of Tobacco , p . 282 , vol . 2. Dodsley's Miscell , where ...
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