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posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is alfo the elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age ...
posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is alfo the elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age ...
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... tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of verfification , and a certain pleafing melancholy in his fentiments , the conftant companion of an elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compofitions .
... tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of verfification , and a certain pleafing melancholy in his fentiments , the conftant companion of an elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compofitions .
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POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and has done it with elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own defign , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ...
POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and has done it with elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own defign , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ...
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ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two characters in the manner of the Earl of Dorfet , an elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the feverity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that ...
ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two characters in the manner of the Earl of Dorfet , an elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the feverity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that ...
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us ; ferving Health , the Fleece , the Religion of Racine the younger , the elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and BosCOVICK , and the philofophical poem before to which , if we may ...
us ; ferving Health , the Fleece , the Religion of Racine the younger , the elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and BosCOVICK , and the philofophical poem before to which , if we may ...
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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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