An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... taste in poetry , among the Romans . From the time of Lucretius , to that of Statius , was no more than about one hundred and fortyfeven years ; and if I might venture to pronounce fo rigorous a sentence , I would fay , that the Romans ...
... taste in poetry , among the Romans . From the time of Lucretius , to that of Statius , was no more than about one hundred and fortyfeven years ; and if I might venture to pronounce fo rigorous a sentence , I would fay , that the Romans ...
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... taste , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the stories of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to be fo diligently read . The ...
... taste , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the stories of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to be fo diligently read . The ...
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... taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phoebus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to mythology and the ancient claffics . The French , as may be imagined ...
... taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phoebus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to mythology and the ancient claffics . The French , as may be imagined ...
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... tastes , engross the whole man to the exclufion of the nobler pursuits of virtue and humanity * . " We We may here apply an elegant obfervation of Tully , who fays in his Brutus , Credo , fed Athenienfium quoque plus interfuit firma ...
... tastes , engross the whole man to the exclufion of the nobler pursuits of virtue and humanity * . " We We may here apply an elegant obfervation of Tully , who fays in his Brutus , Credo , fed Athenienfium quoque plus interfuit firma ...
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Joseph Warton. religious , and particularly the Jefuits , perceiving that a taste for learning began widely to diffuse itself among the laity , could find no furer method of repreffing it , than by treating the learned character as ...
Joseph Warton. religious , and particularly the Jefuits , perceiving that a taste for learning began widely to diffuse itself among the laity , could find no furer method of repreffing it , than by treating the learned character as ...
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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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