An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage . tern tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of 12 ESSAY ON THE ...
... used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage . tern tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of 12 ESSAY ON THE ...
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... used to own that he derived the harmony of his numbers from Fairfax's Taffo , who wellvowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious verfifier , and Spenfer has perhaps more variety of mufic than either of thein * . A poet who ...
... used to own that he derived the harmony of his numbers from Fairfax's Taffo , who wellvowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious verfifier , and Spenfer has perhaps more variety of mufic than either of thein * . A poet who ...
Page 67
... used to be printed at home ; but this expreffion feeming to exclude a future existence , as , to speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great injury to the harmony of the line , but ...
... used to be printed at home ; but this expreffion feeming to exclude a future existence , as , to speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great injury to the harmony of the line , but ...
Page 118
... used twice more in the writings of our poet ; in the Temple of Fame in the four hundred and thirty - fixth line , and in the Dunciad at the four hundred and fifth . This Effay is not decorated with many comparisons ; two however ought ...
... used twice more in the writings of our poet ; in the Temple of Fame in the four hundred and thirty - fixth line , and in the Dunciad at the four hundred and fifth . This Effay is not decorated with many comparisons ; two however ought ...
Page 119
... used to speak of him as a being of a fuperior order , that had condefcended to vifit this lower world ; in particular , when the laft comet appeared and approached near the earth , he told fome of his acquaintance , it was fent only to ...
... used to speak of him as a being of a fuperior order , that had condefcended to vifit this lower world ; in particular , when the laft comet appeared and approached near the earth , he told fome of his acquaintance , it was fent only to ...
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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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