An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 13
... writer whose fancy was eminently ftrong . " Catilina vero , longe a fuis , inter hoftium cadavera repertus eft , paululum Palamon and Arcite , Book I. etiam etiam fpirans ; ferociamque animi , quam habuerat vivus , AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
... writer whose fancy was eminently ftrong . " Catilina vero , longe a fuis , inter hoftium cadavera repertus eft , paululum Palamon and Arcite , Book I. etiam etiam fpirans ; ferociamque animi , quam habuerat vivus , AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
Page 31
... ftrong and circumftantial imagery , but tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of verfification , and a certain pleafing melancholy in his fentiments , the conftant companion of an elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and ...
... ftrong and circumftantial imagery , but tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of verfification , and a certain pleafing melancholy in his fentiments , the conftant companion of an elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and ...
Page 42
... ftrong , and sprightly ; but his tafte falfe and unclaffical , even though he had much learning . In his latin compofitions , his fix books on plants , where the fubject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial ...
... ftrong , and sprightly ; but his tafte falfe and unclaffical , even though he had much learning . In his latin compofitions , his fix books on plants , where the fubject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial ...
Page 64
... ftrong connections , nice dependencies , Gradations juft , has thy pervading foul Look'd thro ' ? Or can a part contain the whole ? " IMAGINE only fome perfon entirely a ftranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the fea or ...
... ftrong connections , nice dependencies , Gradations juft , has thy pervading foul Look'd thro ' ? Or can a part contain the whole ? " IMAGINE only fome perfon entirely a ftranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the fea or ...
Page 88
... removes weak paffions for the ftrong t . * The Pleasures of Imagination , Book iii . v . 546 , + Ver . 157 . THIS is from the Duke de la Rochefoucault . Whenever THIS 88 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS fiafm, fupported by a more figurative stile, ...
... removes weak paffions for the ftrong t . * The Pleasures of Imagination , Book iii . v . 546 , + Ver . 157 . THIS is from the Duke de la Rochefoucault . Whenever THIS 88 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS fiafm, fupported by a more figurative stile, ...
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