An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... young babes before their parent's eyes , And feeds and thrives on public miferies * . Oedipus , in Statius , behaves with the fury B. I. ver . 701 . of of a bluftering bully ; in Sophocles * , with AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
... young babes before their parent's eyes , And feeds and thrives on public miferies * . Oedipus , in Statius , behaves with the fury B. I. ver . 701 . of of a bluftering bully ; in Sophocles * , with AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
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... young imitator with so much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . * Book II . Canto 12. Stanza 71 . The THE next ftanza of POPE reprefents fome allegorical figures , I 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... young imitator with so much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . * Book II . Canto 12. Stanza 71 . The THE next ftanza of POPE reprefents fome allegorical figures , I 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparifon with Rochefter's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on ...
... young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparifon with Rochefter's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on ...
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... Young , Phillips , Cib- ber . Some of these writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But PoPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are ...
... Young , Phillips , Cib- ber . Some of these writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But PoPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are ...
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... Young , Dr. Defaguliers , and others . Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in one of his letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules ...
... Young , Dr. Defaguliers , and others . Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in one of his letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules ...
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