An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Italians we owed any thing that could be called poetry : from whom Chaucer copied largely , as they are faid to have done from the bards of Pro- vence ; and to which Italians he is perpe- tually owning his obligations , particularly to ...
... Italians we owed any thing that could be called poetry : from whom Chaucer copied largely , as they are faid to have done from the bards of Pro- vence ; and to which Italians he is perpe- tually owning his obligations , particularly to ...
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... Italian poetry , was written by a M. A. di Tem- po , of which he had feen a manufcript in the great library at Milan ... Italians , yet the artful and en- tertaining plan of his Canterbury Tales , was purely original and his own . This ...
... Italian poetry , was written by a M. A. di Tem- po , of which he had feen a manufcript in the great library at Milan ... Italians , yet the artful and en- tertaining plan of his Canterbury Tales , was purely original and his own . This ...
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... Italian , and Spanish of thefe latter ages . Indeed there is a vast difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their undoubted due of excelling ...
... Italian , and Spanish of thefe latter ages . Indeed there is a vast difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their undoubted due of excelling ...
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... Italian must gain the preference in all refpects . Both of them are chargeable with the fame fault , namely , an intemperance and luxuriance of imagination , and a romantic fondness of the marvellous , But Ariosto has compensated this ...
... Italian must gain the preference in all refpects . Both of them are chargeable with the fame fault , namely , an intemperance and luxuriance of imagination , and a romantic fondness of the marvellous , But Ariosto has compensated this ...
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... Italian more conduct and œconomy ; more interesting circumftances ; more variety and exactness ; more graces and embellish- ments ; and more of that softness which eases , relieves , and adds a luftre to , the fublime ? I question ...
... Italian more conduct and œconomy ; more interesting circumftances ; more variety and exactness ; more graces and embellish- ments ; and more of that softness which eases , relieves , and adds a luftre to , the fublime ? I question ...
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