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POPE however has omitted or foftened the groffer and more offenfive paffages . Chaucer afforded him many fubjects of a more ferious and fublime fpecies ; and it were to be wifhed , POPE had exercised his pencil on the pathetic ftory of ...
POPE however has omitted or foftened the groffer and more offenfive paffages . Chaucer afforded him many fubjects of a more ferious and fublime fpecies ; and it were to be wifhed , POPE had exercised his pencil on the pathetic ftory of ...
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In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftness of the criticism , but because it contains a cenfure * Cowley is faid to have defpifed Chaucer . I am not furprized at this ftrange judgment Cowley was ...
In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftness of the criticism , but because it contains a cenfure * Cowley is faid to have defpifed Chaucer . I am not furprized at this ftrange judgment Cowley was ...
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One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocofe old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole ...
One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocofe old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole ...
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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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... whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his wound yet welled fresh , alas ; In which a rusty knife fast fixed stood , And made an open paffage for the gushing flood * .
... whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his wound yet welled fresh , alas ; In which a rusty knife fast fixed stood , And made an open paffage for the gushing flood * .
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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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