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Page 51
“ As society and the mixing in company , gives to men a quicker sense of ridicule , so retirement more disposes men to reflect on the heinqusness of vice ; the satirical writings therefore of such a nation are sharp and severe , and we ...
“ As society and the mixing in company , gives to men a quicker sense of ridicule , so retirement more disposes men to reflect on the heinqusness of vice ; the satirical writings therefore of such a nation are sharp and severe , and we ...
Page 52
The unexpected fatness and familiarity of the last line waş thus ridiculed by Mr. Brown with much humour , Persuafion tips his tongue whene'er he talks , And he has chambers in the King's - Bench walks . has has set before the public ...
The unexpected fatness and familiarity of the last line waş thus ridiculed by Mr. Brown with much humour , Persuafion tips his tongue whene'er he talks , And he has chambers in the King's - Bench walks . has has set before the public ...
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After borrowing fo largely from this treatise , our author should not méthinks have ridiculed it , as he does , in the Fourth Book of the Dunciad ; ver . 417 Or that bright image to our fancy draw , Which Theocles in raptur'd vision saw ...
After borrowing fo largely from this treatise , our author should not méthinks have ridiculed it , as he does , in the Fourth Book of the Dunciad ; ver . 417 Or that bright image to our fancy draw , Which Theocles in raptur'd vision saw ...
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... and he believed too credulously , and laid too great a stress upon , the relations of voyage - writers and travellers ; as indeed did Locke , for which he is ridiculed by Shaftesbury , vol . i . p . 344 , of the Characteristics .
... and he believed too credulously , and laid too great a stress upon , the relations of voyage - writers and travellers ; as indeed did Locke , for which he is ridiculed by Shaftesbury , vol . i . p . 344 , of the Characteristics .
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... the most interest : ing subject that can employ the mind of . man , surely such strokes of levity , of satire ; of ridicule , however poignant and witty , are ill placed and disgusting , are vio* At a Solemn Mufic ; vol . ii . pag .
... the most interest : ing subject that can employ the mind of . man , surely such strokes of levity , of satire ; of ridicule , however poignant and witty , are ill placed and disgusting , are vio* At a Solemn Mufic ; vol . ii . pag .
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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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