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Gulliver in the next century , will be as obfcure as Garagantua ; and Hudibras and the fatire Menippeč cannot be read , without voluminous commentaries . THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate ...
Gulliver in the next century , will be as obfcure as Garagantua ; and Hudibras and the fatire Menippeč cannot be read , without voluminous commentaries . THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate ...
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It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him , in thefe well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit ...
It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him , in thefe well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit ...
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I believe on a fair comparison with Rochester's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain . Vol .
I believe on a fair comparison with Rochester's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain . Vol .
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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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The ftrokes of its fatire were too fubtle and delicate to be felt by the generality of the audience , who expected only the grofs diverfion of laughing ; so that at the fourth time of its being acted , the author was forced to add to it ...
The ftrokes of its fatire were too fubtle and delicate to be felt by the generality of the audience , who expected only the grofs diverfion of laughing ; so that at the fourth time of its being acted , the author was forced to add to it ...
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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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