An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... verses are many expreffions , here marked with italics , which feem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily captivated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of ...
... verses are many expreffions , here marked with italics , which feem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily captivated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of ...
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... freedom than his blank - verse . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , Vol . I. pag . 247 , and Vol . III . pag . 119 . † And alfo Dr. Beattie's charming Minstrel . ** D 3 POPE POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
... freedom than his blank - verse . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , Vol . I. pag . 247 , and Vol . III . pag . 119 . † And alfo Dr. Beattie's charming Minstrel . ** D 3 POPE POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
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... 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 ingenious as Waller's Phoebus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to ...
... 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 ingenious as Waller's Phoebus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to ...
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... verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before us . In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a fubject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The ...
... verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before us . In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a fubject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The ...
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... verse . POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was high , and of dignity , because of its being mixed with argument which of its nature approacheth to profe ...
... verse . POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was high , and of dignity , because of its being mixed with argument which of its nature approacheth to profe ...
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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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