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For this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had 1 in so many successive years ...
For this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had 1 in so many successive years ...
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Pope has omitted a stroke of humour ; for in the original , she naturally mistakes the rank and age of St. Jerome : the lines must be transcribed . * Ver . 359 . Yclepid Yclepid Valerie and Theophraft , At which boke he lough 10 ESSAY ...
Pope has omitted a stroke of humour ; for in the original , she naturally mistakes the rank and age of St. Jerome : the lines must be transcribed . * Ver . 359 . Yclepid Yclepid Valerie and Theophraft , At which boke he lough 10 ESSAY ...
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As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages 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 absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages 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 besides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corse , whose 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 besides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corse , whose 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 leisure dully and soberly to attend to the anachronism on so striking an occasion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and pro priety is forgot . pomp ...
Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and soberly to attend to the anachronism on so striking an occasion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and pro priety is forgot . pomp ...
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