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To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we fhould be amazed to find how few ...
To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we fhould be amazed to find how few ...
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If I was to name my favourite among Waller's fmaller pieces , it fhould be his apology for having loved before . He begins by faying that " they who never had been ufed to the furprifing juice of the grape , render up their reafon to ...
If I was to name my favourite among Waller's fmaller pieces , it fhould be his apology for having loved before . He begins by faying that " they who never had been ufed to the furprifing juice of the grape , render up their reafon to ...
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... fhould be written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almoft all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it confiderable enough to be read .
... fhould be written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almoft all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it confiderable enough to be read .
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I believe on a fair comparison with Rochester's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain . Vol .
I believe on a fair comparison with Rochester's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain . Vol .
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... purity of manners , fhould reprefent his kind in the dark and disagreeable colours he has done , with all the malignity of a difcontented HOBBIST , is a lamentable perverfion of fine talents , and is a real injury to fociety .
... purity of manners , fhould reprefent his kind in the dark and disagreeable colours he has done , with all the malignity of a difcontented HOBBIST , is a lamentable perverfion of fine talents , and is a real injury to fociety .
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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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