An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... firft dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them in VOL . II ...
... firft dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them in VOL . II ...
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... firft fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a ...
... firft fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a ...
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... firft of these Imitations is of Chaucer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original , as it is the only piece of our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the ...
... firft of these Imitations is of Chaucer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original , as it is the only piece of our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the ...
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... firft canto of which in particular , is marvellously pleafing , and the ftanzas have a greater flow and freedom than his blank - verse . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , Vol . I. pag . 247 , and Vol . III . pag . 119 . † And alfo Dr. Beattie's ...
... firft canto of which in particular , is marvellously pleafing , and the ftanzas have a greater flow and freedom than his blank - verse . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , Vol . I. pag . 247 , and Vol . III . pag . 119 . † And alfo Dr. Beattie's ...
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... firft Dutch war , his ballad on knotting , and on Lewis XIV . may be named as examples of this happy talent , and as confutations of a fentiment of the to uncork a bottle , they could not find their bottle - screw , which was fallen ...
... firft Dutch war , his ballad on knotting , and on Lewis XIV . may be named as examples of this happy talent , and as confutations of a fentiment of the to uncork a bottle , they could not find their bottle - screw , which was fallen ...
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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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