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How happened it , fays Mr. Hurd , that Sir Philip Sydney in his Arcadia , and afterwards Spenfer in his Faery Queen , obferved fo unnatural a conduct in those works ; in which the ftory proceeds as it were by fnatches , and with ...
How happened it , fays Mr. Hurd , that Sir Philip Sydney in his Arcadia , and afterwards Spenfer in his Faery Queen , obferved fo unnatural a conduct in those works ; in which the ftory proceeds as it were by fnatches , and with ...
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... where the fubject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epigrams than Defcriptions . I do not remember member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley 5 42 ...
... where the fubject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given us more Epigrams than Defcriptions . I do not remember member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley 5 42 ...
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member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley had a moft happy . talent of imitating the eafy manner of Horace's epiftolary writings ; I must therefore infert a specimen of this , his excellence . Ergo iterum verfus ? dices .
member to have feen it enough obferved , that Cowley had a moft happy . talent of imitating the eafy manner of Horace's epiftolary writings ; I must therefore infert a specimen of this , his excellence . Ergo iterum verfus ? dices .
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But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are very ftrongly mannered , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo .
But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are very ftrongly mannered , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo .
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+ lations of that propriety which POPE in general fo ftrictly obferved . Lucretius preferves throughout , the dignity he at first affumed ; even his farcafms and irony on the fuperftitious , have fomething august , and a noble ...
+ lations of that propriety which POPE in general fo ftrictly obferved . Lucretius preferves throughout , the dignity he at first affumed ; even his farcafms and irony on the fuperftitious , have fomething august , and a noble ...
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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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