An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fame time , adapted to the furious nature of the God to whom it belonged ; and carries with it a barbarous and tremendous idea . * These paffages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being ...
... fame time , adapted to the furious nature of the God to whom it belonged ; and carries with it a barbarous and tremendous idea . * These paffages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being ...
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... refentment is more temperate . See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most en- chanting tragedy . chufe chuse rather to account for Ovid's falling into fo blameable 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS . OVID is also another writer of a bad ...
... refentment is more temperate . See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most en- chanting tragedy . chufe chuse rather to account for Ovid's falling into fo blameable 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS . OVID is also another writer of a bad ...
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... fame volume . POPE † , in * Settle was affifted in writing the Anti - Achitophel by Clifford , and others the best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . + Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The ...
... fame volume . POPE † , in * Settle was affifted in writing the Anti - Achitophel by Clifford , and others the best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . + Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The ...
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... fame subject , Ad Johannem Rouseium , 1646 , written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum ...
... fame subject , Ad Johannem Rouseium , 1646 , written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum ...
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... fame fpecies with the piece before us . In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been fcrutinized in ...
... fame fpecies with the piece before us . In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been fcrutinized in ...
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