An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fpirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been ...
... fpirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been ...
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... fpirit , could yet never excel in tragedy , though fo fond of theatrical fpectacles ? Or why the Greeks , so fruitful in every species of poetry , yet never pro- duced but one great epic poet ? While on the the other hand , modern Italy ...
... fpirit , could yet never excel in tragedy , though fo fond of theatrical fpectacles ? Or why the Greeks , so fruitful in every species of poetry , yet never pro- duced but one great epic poet ? While on the the other hand , modern Italy ...
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... fpirit , that harmonious , and varied verfification , and that strength of imagery , which confpire to excite our admiration of this beautiful poem * . 28. Proud of an easy conqueft all along , She but removes weak paffions for the ...
... fpirit , that harmonious , and varied verfification , and that strength of imagery , which confpire to excite our admiration of this beautiful poem * . 28. Proud of an easy conqueft all along , She but removes weak paffions for the ...
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... fpirit of Alceus ; if it be not a kind of profanation to speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- fpotic government . * Ver . 90 . 7. Alas 7. Alas in truth the man but chang'd his mind 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... fpirit of Alceus ; if it be not a kind of profanation to speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- fpotic government . * Ver . 90 . 7. Alas 7. Alas in truth the man but chang'd his mind 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... fpirit . And the introductions to these two satires , particularly the addrefs to the incom- parable Lady Betty Germain , are perhaps as elegant as any thing in our language . After reading thefe pieces , fo full of a knowledge of the ...
... fpirit . And the introductions to these two satires , particularly the addrefs to the incom- parable Lady Betty Germain , are perhaps as elegant as any thing in our language . After reading thefe pieces , fo full of a knowledge of the ...
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