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From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 Chaucer's 1 " 1 " Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light ...
From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 Chaucer's 1 " 1 " Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light ...
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By that ftrange fatality which feems to difqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticifm he has given , of the reft , in his ...
By that ftrange fatality which feems to difqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticifm he has given , of the reft , in his ...
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He feems to have thought that the fwains of Surry had the innocence of thofe of Sydney's Arcadia ; but the perverfeness and debauchery of his own workmen foon undeceived him , with whom , it is faid , he was fometimes fo far provoked ...
He feems to have thought that the fwains of Surry had the innocence of thofe of Sydney's Arcadia ; but the perverfeness and debauchery of his own workmen foon undeceived him , with whom , it is faid , he was fometimes fo far provoked ...
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Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in " I confefs I did never one of his letters . imagine you were so deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and ...
Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in " I confefs I did never one of his letters . imagine you were so deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and ...
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POPE feems to have hinted , by this allufion to the Paradife Loft , that he intended his poem for a defence of providence , as well as Milton : but he took a very different method in pursuing that end ; and imagined that the goodness ...
POPE feems to have hinted , by this allufion to the Paradife Loft , that he intended his poem for a defence of providence , as well as Milton : but he took a very different method in pursuing that end ; and imagined that the goodness ...
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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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