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It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us ...
It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us ...
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I have a peculiar pleasure in mentioning two of them * , The SCHOOL - MISTRESS , by Mr. Shenstone , and the EDUCATION of ACHILLES , by Mr. Bedingfield + . To these must be added that exquifite piece of wild and romantic imagery ...
I have a peculiar pleasure in mentioning two of them * , The SCHOOL - MISTRESS , by Mr. Shenstone , and the EDUCATION of ACHILLES , by Mr. Bedingfield + . To these must be added that exquifite piece of wild and romantic imagery ...
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I cannot however forbear to mention a remark of Voltaire , who affirms , " that the famous Tale of a Tub is an imitation of the old story of the three invisible rings , which a father bequeathed to his three children .
I cannot however forbear to mention a remark of Voltaire , who affirms , " that the famous Tale of a Tub is an imitation of the old story of the three invisible rings , which a father bequeathed to his three children .
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We We may mention the Syphilis of Fracaftorius , the Silk - worms and Chefs of Vida , the Ambra of Politian , the Agriculture of Alamanni , the Art of Poetry of Boileau , the Gardens of Rapin , the Cyder of Phillips , the Chafe of ...
We We may mention the Syphilis of Fracaftorius , the Silk - worms and Chefs of Vida , the Ambra of Politian , the Agriculture of Alamanni , the Art of Poetry of Boileau , the Gardens of Rapin , the Cyder of Phillips , the Chafe of ...
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... and effects of superftition and tyranny , and the restoration of true religion and just government , all these ought to be mentioned as paffages that deferve high applaufe , nay as fome of the most exalted pieces of English poetry .
... and effects of superftition and tyranny , and the restoration of true religion and just government , all these ought to be mentioned as paffages that deferve high applaufe , nay as fome of the most exalted pieces of English poetry .
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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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