An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... prefent magnificent royal library at Paris . THE tale to which this is the Prologue , has been verfified by Dryden ; and is fup- * Ver . 671 , pofed posed to have been of Chaucer's own con- trivance as AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II.
... prefent magnificent royal library at Paris . THE tale to which this is the Prologue , has been verfified by Dryden ; and is fup- * Ver . 671 , pofed posed to have been of Chaucer's own con- trivance as AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II.
Page 17
... prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and obli- terated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the profufion of fuch animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to ...
... prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and obli- terated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the profufion of fuch animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to ...
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... prefent edition , I shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the second ; it is a defcription of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his ...
... prefent edition , I shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the second ; it is a defcription of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his ...
Page 57
... prefent , which treat of things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- fcriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the ...
... prefent , which treat of things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- fcriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the ...
Page 78
... skies . Which lines at prefent ftand thus , How inftinct varies in the grovling fwine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine . * Ver . 251 . Say Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 78 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... skies . Which lines at prefent ftand thus , How inftinct varies in the grovling fwine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine . * Ver . 251 . Say Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 78 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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