An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fatires with it ; Malefpini alfo made ufe of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not ...
... fatires with it ; Malefpini alfo made ufe of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not ...
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... fatire Menippeč cannot be read , without voluminous commentaries . THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excufe ...
... fatire Menippeč cannot be read , without voluminous commentaries . THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excufe ...
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... fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit cum Statius urbem , Writers of this stamp are always on the ftretch ...
... fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit cum Statius urbem , Writers of this stamp are always on the ftretch ...
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... fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's History of Great - Britain . Vol . II . pag . 434 Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 48 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS POPE in this imitation has ...
... fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's History of Great - Britain . Vol . II . pag . 434 Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 48 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS POPE in this imitation has ...
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... fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that these two qua- lities are by no means incompatible . The greatest wits , fays Addison , I have ever converfed with , were perfons of the best tempers ...
... fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that these two qua- lities are by no means incompatible . The greatest wits , fays Addison , I have ever converfed with , were perfons of the best tempers ...
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