An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... ftyle , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practifed the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precifely fuited each occafion . * Ver . 210 . 14. Without 14 ...
... ftyle , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practifed the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precifely fuited each occafion . * Ver . 210 . 14. Without 14 ...
Page 85
... ftyle , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quæ nimium corri- pientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft aliquid narrationi fupereffe , quam deeffe . Nam cum fupervacua cum tædio dicuntur ...
... ftyle , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quæ nimium corri- pientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft aliquid narrationi fupereffe , quam deeffe . Nam cum fupervacua cum tædio dicuntur ...
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... ftyle is too fhort , abrupt , and epigram- matic ; he tells us himself , he was fond of Lucius Florus ; and he believed too credulously , and laid too great a stress upon , the relations of voyage - writers and travellers ; as in- deed ...
... ftyle is too fhort , abrupt , and epigram- matic ; he tells us himself , he was fond of Lucius Florus ; and he believed too credulously , and laid too great a stress upon , the relations of voyage - writers and travellers ; as in- deed ...
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... describe them in a purer ftyle . Both these ftories would have fhone under the hands of POPE . THIS doctrine of our author may be farther illuftrated by the following paffage of of Bacon . " It is no lefs worthy to 140 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... describe them in a purer ftyle . Both these ftories would have fhone under the hands of POPE . THIS doctrine of our author may be farther illuftrated by the following paffage of of Bacon . " It is no lefs worthy to 140 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... ftyle ; magna , non nimia ; fublimis , non abrupta ; severa , non triftis ; læta , non luxuriofa ; plena , non tumida . And sometimes Tully ; as , vicit pudorem libido , timorem audacia , rationem amentia . But these writers fall into ...
... ftyle ; magna , non nimia ; fublimis , non abrupta ; severa , non triftis ; læta , non luxuriofa ; plena , non tumida . And sometimes Tully ; as , vicit pudorem libido , timorem audacia , rationem amentia . But these writers fall into ...
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