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Page 42
In the lines on a lady weeping , you might expect à touching picture of beauty in distress ; you will be disappointed . Wit on the present occasion is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her eye is said to resemble Phaeton so ...
In the lines on a lady weeping , you might expect à touching picture of beauty in distress ; you will be disappointed . Wit on the present occasion is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her eye is said to resemble Phaeton so ...
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In this also consists the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift desired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been scrutinized in so many late writings , that it is ...
In this also consists the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift desired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been scrutinized in so many late writings , that it is ...
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If any beauty in this Effay be uncommonly transcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few instances , and those pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
If any beauty in this Effay be uncommonly transcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few instances , and those pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
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... that appearances of evil , both moral and natural , are also necessary and unavoidable ; That the seeming defects and blemishes in the universe , conspire to its general beauty ; That as all parts in an animal are not eyes , and as ...
... that appearances of evil , both moral and natural , are also necessary and unavoidable ; That the seeming defects and blemishes in the universe , conspire to its general beauty ; That as all parts in an animal are not eyes , and as ...
Page 88
... and grace , And gentlest beauty , Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air , And ocean groaning from the lowest bed , Heaves his tempestuous billows ...
... and grace , And gentlest beauty , Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air , And ocean groaning from the lowest bed , Heaves his tempestuous billows ...
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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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