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cularly in Hans Carvel , the invention of which , if its genealogy be worth tracing , is first due to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetiæ , where it is entitled Vifio Francifci Philelphi ; from hence ...
cularly in Hans Carvel , the invention of which , if its genealogy be worth tracing , is first due to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetiæ , where it is entitled Vifio Francifci Philelphi ; from hence ...
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But above all , the whole defcription of the entering the lifts * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
But above all , the whole defcription of the entering the lifts * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
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THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were ...
THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were ...
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His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . “ I wrote things , faid POPE , I am afhamed to ...
His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . “ I wrote things , faid POPE , I am afhamed to ...
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To man that was i ' th ' evening made , Stars gave the first delight ; Admiring in the gloomy fhade , Thofe little drops of light . * Spenfer and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named ...
To man that was i ' th ' evening made , Stars gave the first delight ; Admiring in the gloomy fhade , Thofe little drops of light . * Spenfer and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named ...
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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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