An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fhall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : " It is * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious stories . a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
... fhall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : " It is * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious stories . a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
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... fhall add nothing to what I have already faid on this fubject * ; but only relate the occafion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always ...
... fhall add nothing to what I have already faid on this fubject * ; but only relate the occafion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always ...
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... fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the ...
... fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the ...
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... fhall find among them many Juvenals , without difcovering one Horace . THE DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confifts in defcribing the ...
... fhall find among them many Juvenals , without difcovering one Horace . THE DESCRIPTION of the LIFE of a Country Parfon is a lively imitation of Swift * , and is full of humour . The point of the likeness confifts in defcribing the ...
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... fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.- " Dr. Swift has an odd blunt way that is mistaken by strangers for ill - nature ; it is fo odd that there is no defcribing it but by facts . I'll tell you ...
... fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.- " Dr. Swift has an odd blunt way that is mistaken by strangers for ill - nature ; it is fo odd that there is no defcribing it but by facts . I'll tell you ...
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