An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Effay be uncommonly tranfcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few inftances , and those pardonable , has occafioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking , how much ...
... Effay be uncommonly tranfcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few inftances , and those pardonable , has occafioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking , how much ...
Page 62
... Effay on Man , in the hand - writing of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a series of propofitions , which POPE was to verify and illuftrate . In doing which , our poet , it muft be confeffed , left feveral paffages fo expreffed , as to be ...
... Effay on Man , in the hand - writing of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a series of propofitions , which POPE was to verify and illuftrate . In doing which , our poet , it muft be confeffed , left feveral paffages fo expreffed , as to be ...
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... Effay . 4. Prefumptuous man ! the reason would'ft thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little and fo blind ? Firft if thou can'ft the harder reason guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less * . VOLTAIRE , in the late additions ...
... Effay . 4. Prefumptuous man ! the reason would'ft thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little and fo blind ? Firft if thou can'ft the harder reason guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less * . VOLTAIRE , in the late additions ...
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... Effay , and interefting the reader . 6. The foul uneafy , and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come t IN former editions it used to be printed at home ; but this expreffion feeming to exclude a future existence ...
... Effay , and interefting the reader . 6. The foul uneafy , and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come t IN former editions it used to be printed at home ; but this expreffion feeming to exclude a future existence ...
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... Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 256 . ↑ Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 255 . F 4 should fhould in the quieteft retirement , be less able to AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 71 1.
... Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 256 . ↑ Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 255 . F 4 should fhould in the quieteft retirement , be less able to AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 71 1.
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admirable affected alfo ancient appears beauty becauſe Boileau called character Corneille critic death defign Dryden Effay elegant epiftle equal excellent faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fhall firft firſt fome force French fubject fuch genius give given hand himſelf Horace images imitation Italy king laft language late learned letter lines lively Lord manner mean mentioned Milton mind moft moral moſt muſt nature never obferved occafion opinion original paffage paffion particularly perfon perhaps piece poem poet poetry POPE reader reaſon remarkable ridicule SCENA ſhould ſpirit Swift thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tranflation true turn uſed verfe verſe whole writer written wrote Young
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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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2010 |
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