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For this reafon , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have had in + : in fo many fucceffive years ...
For this reafon , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have had in + : in fo many fucceffive years ...
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As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and abfurd , I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat* The ...
As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and abfurd , I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat* The ...
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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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Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to attend to the anachronism on fo ftriking an occafion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and propriety is forgot .
Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to attend to the anachronism on fo ftriking an occafion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and propriety is forgot .
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It must be owned , that his ode on the power of mufic , which is the chief ornament of this volume , is the most unrivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that ftrange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE ...
It must be owned , that his ode on the power of mufic , which is the chief ornament of this volume , is the most unrivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that ftrange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE ...
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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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