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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 , He roar'd , he beat his breaft , he tore his hair .
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 , He roar'd , he beat his breaft , he tore his hair .
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Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
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But above all , the whole defcription of the entering the lifts * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
But above all , the whole defcription of the entering the lifts * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
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The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a mafter , confpire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first ...
The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a mafter , confpire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first ...
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Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and fpirit ; but his images are gigantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him ...
Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and fpirit ; but his images are gigantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him ...
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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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