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To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the 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 ...
To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the 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 ...
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WE of this nation have been remarkably barren in our inventions of facts ; we have been chiefly borrowers in this fpecies of compofition ; as the plots of our most applauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have ...
WE of this nation have been remarkably barren in our inventions of facts ; we have been chiefly borrowers in this fpecies of compofition ; as the plots of our most applauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have ...
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CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the oppofite opinions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous ...
CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the oppofite opinions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous ...
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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'ring leaves he ftood , More than a mile immers'd within the wood , At once the wind was laid - the whifp'ring found Was ...
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'ring leaves he ftood , More than a mile immers'd within the wood , At once the wind was laid - the whifp'ring found Was ...
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And afterwards , when he becomes more particularly acquainted with the unnatural cruelty of his fons , yet his refentment is more temperate . See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most enchanting tragedy . . chufe * dipus ...
And afterwards , when he becomes more particularly acquainted with the unnatural cruelty of his fons , yet his refentment is more temperate . See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most enchanting tragedy . . chufe * dipus ...
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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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