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Page 51
As fociety and the mixing in company , gives to men a quicker sense of ridicule , fo retirement more difpofes men to reflect on the heinqusness of vice ; the fatirical writings therefore of fuch a nation are sharp and fevere , and we ...
As fociety and the mixing in company , gives to men a quicker sense of ridicule , fo retirement more difpofes men to reflect on the heinqusness of vice ; the fatirical writings therefore of fuch a nation are sharp and fevere , and we ...
Page 52
Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words , Known to the Courts , the Commons and the Lords , The unexpected flatnefs and familiarity of the laft line was thus ridiculed by Mr. Brown with much humour . Perfuafion tips his tongue ...
Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words , Known to the Courts , the Commons and the Lords , The unexpected flatnefs and familiarity of the laft line was thus ridiculed by Mr. Brown with much humour . Perfuafion tips his tongue ...
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After borrowing fo largely from this treatise , our author fhould not methinks 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 vifion ...
After borrowing fo largely from this treatise , our author fhould not methinks 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 vifion ...
Page 100
... 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 .
Page 115
... to explain the most interesting fubject that can employ the mind of . man , furely such strokes of levity , of satire , of ridicule , however poignant and witty , are ill placed and disgusting , are vioAt a Solemn Mufic , vol . ii .
... to explain the most interesting fubject that can employ the mind of . man , furely such strokes of levity , of satire , of ridicule , however poignant and witty , are ill placed and disgusting , are vioAt a Solemn Mufic , vol . ii .
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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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