An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... should be amazed to find how few circumftances have Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
... should be amazed to find how few circumftances have Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
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... vfus T. y . Sect . iii . They should read the fenfible difcourfe of S. Wedrenfels , of Baile , De Me- teoris Orationis . Promifitque 4 Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos 22 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... vfus T. y . Sect . iii . They should read the fenfible difcourfe of S. Wedrenfels , of Baile , De Me- teoris Orationis . Promifitque 4 Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos 22 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... should be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been used to the surprising juice of the grape , render up their reason to the first delicious cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what ...
... should be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been used to the surprising juice of the grape , render up their reason to the first delicious cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what ...
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... should not be able to discover perfection and order in every inftance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the ...
... should not be able to discover perfection and order in every inftance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the ...
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... should know the ends and uses : when instead of seeing to the highest pendants , we fee only fome lower deck , and are in this dark cafe of flesh , confined even to the hold and meaneft ftation of the veffel * . " I have inferted this ...
... should know the ends and uses : when instead of seeing to the highest pendants , we fee only fome lower deck , and are in this dark cafe of flesh , confined even to the hold and meaneft ftation of the veffel * . " I have inferted this ...
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