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... and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies ...
... and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies ...
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It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us ...
It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us ...
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It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them , particularly , to Palamon and Arcite , Sigifmunda and Guifcardo , Theodore and Honoria ; and above all , to his exquifite mufic ...
It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them , particularly , to Palamon and Arcite , Sigifmunda and Guifcardo , Theodore and Honoria ; and above all , to his exquifite mufic ...
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About this time it became fashionable among the wits at Button's , the mob of gentlemen that wrote with ease , to tranflate Ovid . Their united performances were published in form by Garth , with a preface written in a flowing and ...
About this time it became fashionable among the wits at Button's , the mob of gentlemen that wrote with ease , to tranflate Ovid . Their united performances were published in form by Garth , with a preface written in a flowing and ...
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... to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . “ I wrote things , faid POPE , I am afhamed to * Pag .
... to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . “ I wrote things , faid POPE , I am afhamed to * Pag .
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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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