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Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , tantaque libidine vulgi Auditur : fed , cum fregit fubfellia versu , Efurit . ; In these verses are many expreffions , here marked with italics , which feem to hint ...
Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , tantaque libidine vulgi Auditur : fed , cum fregit fubfellia versu , Efurit . ; In these verses are many expreffions , here marked with italics , which feem to hint ...
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... added that exquifite piece of wild and romantic imagery , Thomfon's Caftle of Indolence ; the firft canto of which in particular , is marvellously pleafing , and the ftanzas have a greater flow and freedom than his blank - verse .
... added that exquifite piece of wild and romantic imagery , Thomfon's Caftle of Indolence ; the firft canto of which in particular , is marvellously pleafing , and the ftanzas have a greater flow and freedom than his blank - verse .
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POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and has done it with elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own defign , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ...
POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and has done it with elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own defign , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ...
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In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city fhower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before ...
In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city fhower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before ...
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THE ESSAY ON MAN is as close a piece of argument , admitting its principles , as perhaps can be found in verse . POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was ...
THE ESSAY ON MAN is as close a piece of argument , admitting its principles , as perhaps can be found in verse . POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was ...
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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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