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If we pass on from defcriptions of perfons to those of things , we fhall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft ...
If we pass on from defcriptions of perfons to those of things , we fhall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft ...
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I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL .
I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL .
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I 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 ...
I 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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Thou , fury , then , fome lafting curfe entail , Which o'er their children's children fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which thefe dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer ...
Thou , fury , then , fome lafting curfe entail , Which o'er their children's children fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which thefe dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer ...
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I SHALL conclude this fection with a ftory , which POPE himself related , because it is characteristical of his old friend , and I fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.
I SHALL conclude this fection with a ftory , which POPE himself related , because it is characteristical of his old friend , and I fhall give it in the very words which POPE ufed , when he told it to Mr. Spence.
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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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