An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Joseph Warton. For bending o'er the cup , the tears the shed Seem'd by the pofture to discharge her head , O'erfill'd before ; and oft ( her mouth apply'd To the cold heart ) fhe kiss'd at once and cry'd . There is an incomparable ...
Joseph Warton. For bending o'er the cup , the tears the shed Seem'd by the pofture to discharge her head , O'erfill'd before ; and oft ( her mouth apply'd To the cold heart ) fhe kiss'd at once and cry'd . There is an incomparable ...
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... seems to be more awake and alive to all the foftneffes of nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and disagreeable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to ...
... seems to be more awake and alive to all the foftneffes of nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and disagreeable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to ...
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... seems to have remarkably laboured his ftyle , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practised the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precifely fuited each ...
... seems to have remarkably laboured his ftyle , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practised the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precifely fuited each ...
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... seems to have been difgufted with all religions and all governments . I have been informed from an eye - witnefs of one his laft interviews with POPE , who was then given over by the phyficians , that Bo- lingbroke , ftanding behind ...
... seems to have been difgufted with all religions and all governments . I have been informed from an eye - witnefs of one his laft interviews with POPE , who was then given over by the phyficians , that Bo- lingbroke , ftanding behind ...
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... seems to have funk at laft into abfolute fatalism . The fentiments are indeed put into the mouth of MEMMIUS , the friend and patron of LUCRETIUS , and addreffed to CICERO : this being the method the French philo- fopher took to acquaint ...
... seems to have funk at laft into abfolute fatalism . The fentiments are indeed put into the mouth of MEMMIUS , the friend and patron of LUCRETIUS , and addreffed to CICERO : this being the method the French philo- fopher took to acquaint ...
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