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... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest ...
... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest ...
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... most applauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a ...
... most applauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a ...
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... most numerous and fweet , the most mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a ...
... most numerous and fweet , the most mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a ...
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Joseph Warton. and I place them laft , as I think them the most lofty of any part of Dryden's works . Whilft lift'ning to the murm ... most unrivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that ftrange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
Joseph Warton. and I place them laft , as I think them the most lofty of any part of Dryden's works . Whilft lift'ning to the murm ... most unrivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that ftrange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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... fons , yet his refentment is more temperate . See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most enchanting tragedy . . chufe * dipus Coloneus Torvial SEIYWTEL , t ! chuse rather to account for Ovid's falling into 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS .
... fons , yet his refentment is more temperate . See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most enchanting tragedy . . chufe * dipus Coloneus Torvial SEIYWTEL , t ! chuse rather to account for Ovid's falling into 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS .
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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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