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... image of anguish . He rav'd with all the madness of despair , He roar'd , he beat his breaft , he tore his hair . Dry forrow in his ftupid eyes appears , For wanting nourishment , he wanted tears : His eye - balls in their hollow ...
... image of anguish . He rav'd with all the madness of despair , He roar'd , he beat his breaft , he tore his hair . Dry forrow in his ftupid eyes appears , For wanting nourishment , he wanted tears : His eye - balls in their hollow ...
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... image in Spenfer , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grass A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his wound yet welled fresh , alas ; In ...
... image in Spenfer , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grass A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his wound yet welled fresh , alas ; In ...
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... firft delineation of all thefe images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth examining how much Dryden has added purely from his own ftock . combat , combat , which is told at length , in the 16 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... firft delineation of all thefe images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth examining how much Dryden has added purely from his own ftock . combat , combat , which is told at length , in the 16 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a master , confpire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only ...
... images , those certain marks of the first sketch of a master , confpire to corroborate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only ...
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... images are gigantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted ...
... images are gigantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted ...
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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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