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A person who translated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Çrebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage : tern of POPE , unconnected ...
A person who translated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Çrebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage : tern of POPE , unconnected ...
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If we pass on from descriptions of persons to those of things , we shall find this poem equally excellent . excellent . The temple of Mars , is situated with propriety , in a country desolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape ...
If we pass on from descriptions of persons to those of things , we shall find this poem equally excellent . excellent . The temple of Mars , is situated with propriety , in a country desolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape ...
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Pope in this imitation has discovered a fund of solid sense , and just observation upon ' vice and folly , that are very remarkable in a person so extremely young as he was , at the time he composed it . I believe on a fair comparison ...
Pope in this imitation has discovered a fund of solid sense , and just observation upon ' vice and folly , that are very remarkable in a person so extremely young as he was , at the time he composed it . I believe on a fair comparison ...
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The greatest wits , says Addison , I have ever conversed with , were persons of the best tempers . Dorset possessed the rare secret of uniting energy with ease , in his striking compositions . His verses to Mr. Edward Howard , to Sir ...
The greatest wits , says Addison , I have ever conversed with , were persons of the best tempers . Dorset possessed the rare secret of uniting energy with ease , in his striking compositions . His verses to Mr. Edward Howard , to Sir ...
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IMAGINE only some person entirely a stranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the sea or waters , how great his altonishment would be , when finding himself on board some vessel anchoring at sea , remote from all land ...
IMAGINE only some person entirely a stranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the sea or waters , how great his altonishment would be , when finding himself on board some vessel anchoring at sea , remote from all land ...
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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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