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TH HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this species of composition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them in ...
TH HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this species of composition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them in ...
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To say that Amadis and Sir Tristan have a classical foundation , may at first fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
To say that Amadis and Sir Tristan have a classical foundation , may at first fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
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cularly in Hans Carvel , the invention of which , if its genealogy be worth tracing , is first dye to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetiæ , where it is entitled Visio Francifci Philelphi ; from hence ...
cularly in Hans Carvel , the invention of which , if its genealogy be worth tracing , is first dye to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetiæ , where it is entitled Visio Francifci Philelphi ; from hence ...
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THE TRANSLATION of the first book of 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 ...
THE TRANSLATION of the first book of 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 ...
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His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . wrote things , faid Pope , I am ashamed to ...
His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . wrote things , faid Pope , I am ashamed to ...
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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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