An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Cowley was indif- putably a Genius , but his tafte was perverted and narrowed by a love of witticifms . of of Cowley . " Chaucer is a perpetual foun- tain 2 8 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned ...
... Cowley was indif- putably a Genius , but his tafte was perverted and narrowed by a love of witticifms . of of Cowley . " Chaucer is a perpetual foun- tain 2 8 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned ...
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... tafte and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will always form an agreeable and pleasing picture ; but the pencil of the English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and ...
... tafte and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will always form an agreeable and pleasing picture ; but the pencil of the English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and ...
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... tafte . 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 ...
... tafte . 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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... tafte falfe and unclaffical , even though he had much learning . In his latin compofitions , his fix books on plants , where the subject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given ...
... tafte falfe and unclaffical , even though he had much learning . In his latin compofitions , his fix books on plants , where the subject might have led him to a contrary practice , he imitates Martial rather than Virgil , and has given ...
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Joseph Warton. religious , and particularly the Jesuits , per- ceiving that a tafte 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 Jesuits , per- ceiving that a tafte 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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