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I have been informed that Machiavel towards the latter part of his life grew religious , and that fome pieces of ascetic devotion , compofed by him , are preferved in the libraries of Italy . Lord Bacon fays remarkably of Machiavel ...
I have been informed that Machiavel towards the latter part of his life grew religious , and that fome pieces of ascetic devotion , compofed by him , are preferved in the libraries of Italy . Lord Bacon fays remarkably of Machiavel ...
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THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us ...
THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us ...
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The lines of POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of ...
The lines of POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of ...
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The warmth and melody of these pieces , has never been excelled in our language , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and abfurd , I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ...
The warmth and melody of these pieces , has never been excelled in our language , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and abfurd , I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ...
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I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL .
I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL .
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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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