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To fay that Amadis and Sir Triftan have a claffical foundation , may at firft fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
To fay that Amadis and Sir Triftan have a claffical foundation , may at firft fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
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If we pass on from defcriptions of perfons to those of things , we fhall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft ...
If we pass on from defcriptions of perfons to those of things , we fhall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft ...
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... in this he follows the fteps of Pius V. his predeceffor , of blessed memory , and which threatens with fevere punishments all thofe , who fhall dare to give any disturbance to those bookfellers to whom this privilege is granted .
... in this he follows the fteps of Pius V. his predeceffor , of blessed memory , and which threatens with fevere punishments all thofe , who fhall dare to give any disturbance to those bookfellers to whom this privilege is granted .
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The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a mafter , confpire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first ...
The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a mafter , confpire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first ...
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... in which the ftory proceeds as it were by fnatches , and with continual interruptions ? How was the good sense of those writers , fo converfant befides in the best models of antiquity , feduced into this prepofterous method ...
... in which the ftory proceeds as it were by fnatches , and with continual interruptions ? How was the good sense of those writers , fo converfant befides in the best models of antiquity , feduced into this prepofterous method ...
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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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