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... Sublime and the Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poefy . What is there tranfcendently Sublime or Pathetic in POPE ? In his works there is indeed , " nihil inane , nihil nihil arceffitum ; -puro tamen fonti quam magno ...
... Sublime and the Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poefy . What is there tranfcendently Sublime or Pathetic in POPE ? In his works there is indeed , " nihil inane , nihil nihil arceffitum ; -puro tamen fonti quam magno ...
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... sublime strokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much superior to any thing Heathenifm can pro- duce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophecy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo fuc- cessfully ...
... sublime strokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much superior to any thing Heathenifm can pro- duce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophecy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo fuc- cessfully ...
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Joseph Warton. is the SUBLIME : of which indeed he has given a very few strokes , and those taken from Pindar , and , probably , from Alcćus * . His excellence lay in exquisite observations on human ... SUBLIME: of which indeed he has ...
Joseph Warton. is the SUBLIME : of which indeed he has given a very few strokes , and those taken from Pindar , and , probably , from Alcćus * . His excellence lay in exquisite observations on human ... SUBLIME: of which indeed he has ...
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