An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... STATIUS and OVID , and the IMI- TATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . T HE first dawnings of polite lite- rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He ...
... STATIUS and OVID , and the IMI- TATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . T HE first dawnings of polite lite- rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He ...
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... Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were fuffered ever to look Richard Berenger ...
... Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were fuffered ever to look Richard Berenger ...
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... Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and fpirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on ...
... Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and fpirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on ...
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... Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were eafily capti- vated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of numbers ' ; the noify roughness of which , may be par- ticularly alluded to in the ...
... Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were eafily capti- vated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of numbers ' ; the noify roughness of which , may be par- ticularly alluded to in the ...
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... Statius , and for a proof of the ftrength and spirit of POPE's youthful tranflation , I fhall felect the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and ...
... Statius , and for a proof of the ftrength and spirit of POPE's youthful tranflation , I fhall felect the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and ...
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