An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
... fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
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... fas ru . y . Sect . iii . They fhould read the fenfible difcourfe of S. Wedrenfels , of Bafle , De Me- teoris Orationis . 22 Promifitque Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , 22 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... fas ru . y . Sect . iii . They fhould read the fenfible difcourfe of S. Wedrenfels , of Bafle , De Me- teoris Orationis . 22 Promifitque Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , 22 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... fhould be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been ufed to the furprifing juice of the grape , render up cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what he adds has much of the fublime , and ...
... fhould be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been ufed to the furprifing juice of the grape , render up cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what he adds has much of the fublime , and ...
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... fhould be written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read ...
... fhould be written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read ...
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... 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 difcovered a ...
... 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 difcovered a ...
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