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... fhall find this poem equally 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 ...
... fhall find this poem equally 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 ...
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... fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female nĝife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL . II ...
... fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female nĝife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL . II ...
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... fhall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious ftories . It is a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
... fhall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious ftories . It is a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
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... fhall add nothing to what I have already said on this fubject ; but only relate the occasion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always ...
... fhall add nothing to what I have already said on this fubject ; but only relate the occasion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always ...
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... 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 bosom wears ; High on a crown a rifing snake appears , Guards her black front , and hiffes ...
... 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 bosom wears ; High on a crown a rifing snake appears , Guards her black front , and hiffes ...
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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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