An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beaft nor human kind repair ; The fowl , that scent afar , the ...
... excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beaft nor human kind repair ; The fowl , that scent afar , the ...
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... excellent ; namely , TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATUL- LUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PRO- PERTIUS , PHEDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of juft thinking ! C4 and and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in AND ...
... excellent ; namely , TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATUL- LUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PRO- PERTIUS , PHEDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of juft thinking ! C4 and and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in AND ...
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... excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Eternorum operum cuftos fidelis , Quæftorque gazæ nobilioris , Quam cui præfuit Ion , Clarus Erechtheides ...
... excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Eternorum operum cuftos fidelis , Quæftorque gazæ nobilioris , Quam cui præfuit Ion , Clarus Erechtheides ...
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... excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are very ftrongly mannered , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo . " . -In POPE's imitation of the fixth epiftle of Horace ...
... excellent copyift , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are very ftrongly mannered , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo . " . -In POPE's imitation of the fixth epiftle of Horace ...
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... excellent Burgundy , these par- tridges have an admirable flavour . ' The • * It was inferted by Bayle in his Nouvelles , & c . vol . v . p . 88 , as a serious narration ; fo happily was the allegory difguifed . E 3 fame fame Lord Peter ...
... excellent Burgundy , these par- tridges have an admirable flavour . ' The • * It was inferted by Bayle in his Nouvelles , & c . vol . v . p . 88 , as a serious narration ; fo happily was the allegory difguifed . E 3 fame fame Lord Peter ...
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