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Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage . tern tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of 12 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage . tern tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of 12 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Arcite in the absence of Emilia , is highly expreffive of the deepest distress , and a compleat image of anguish . He rav'd with all the madness of defpair ...
tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Arcite in the absence of Emilia , is highly expreffive of the deepest distress , and a compleat image of anguish . He rav'd with all the madness of defpair ...
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... and of the gaunt mastiffs that tore the fides of the fhrieking damfel he purfued ; which is a fubject worthy the pencil of Spagnoletti , as it partakes of that favageness which is fo ftriking to the imagination .
... and of the gaunt mastiffs that tore the fides of the fhrieking damfel he purfued ; which is a fubject worthy the pencil of Spagnoletti , as it partakes of that favageness which is fo ftriking to the imagination .
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I shall add nothing to what I have already faid on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always ...
I shall add nothing to what I have already faid on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always ...
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I fubject which occurred to me , that I could . not leave it till I had completed it ; here it is , finished at one fitting . " And immediately he fhewed him this ode , which places the British lyric poetry above that of any other ...
I fubject which occurred to me , that I could . not leave it till I had completed it ; here it is , finished at one fitting . " And immediately he fhewed him this ode , which places the British lyric poetry above that of any other ...
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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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