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He declares , that none of the claffic poets had the talent of expreffing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Juffit et extendi campos , of the latin ...
He declares , that none of the claffic poets had the talent of expreffing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Juffit et extendi campos , of the latin ...
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Among a multitude of objects delineated with the utmost force * , which we might felect on * Whence it came to pafs that Spenfer did not give his poem the due fimplicity , coherence and unity of a legiti mate Epopea , the reader may ...
Among a multitude of objects delineated with the utmost force * , which we might felect on * Whence it came to pafs that Spenfer did not give his poem the due fimplicity , coherence and unity of a legiti mate Epopea , the reader may ...
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The word awake has peculiar force , and obliquely alludes to his noble friend's leaving his political , for philofophical pursuits . May I venture to observe , that the metaphors in the fucceeding lines , drawn from the field fports of ...
The word awake has peculiar force , and obliquely alludes to his noble friend's leaving his political , for philofophical pursuits . May I venture to observe , that the metaphors in the fucceeding lines , drawn from the field fports of ...
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... but bountiful to all : never employing in one thing more than enough ; but with exact œconomy retrenching the fuperfluous , and adding force to what is principal in every thing . And is not thought and reafon principal in man ?
... but bountiful to all : never employing in one thing more than enough ; but with exact œconomy retrenching the fuperfluous , and adding force to what is principal in every thing . And is not thought and reafon principal in man ?
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Does not this defect engage him the more ftrongly to fociety , and force him to own that he is purposely , and not by accident , made rational and fociable ; and can no otherwise increase or fubfift , than in that focial intercourse and ...
Does not this defect engage him the more ftrongly to fociety , and force him to own that he is purposely , and not by accident , made rational and fociable ; and can no otherwise increase or fubfift , than in that focial intercourse and ...
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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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