An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftness of the criticifm , but because it contains a cenfure Cowley is faid to have defpifed Chaucer . I am not furprized at this flrange ...
... interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftness of the criticifm , but because it contains a cenfure Cowley is faid to have defpifed Chaucer . I am not furprized at this flrange ...
Page 58
... fictions , no tale or ftory , and has relied chiefly on the poetry of his ftile , for the purpose of interefting his readers . His ftile is con- cife and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has cife . 58 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... fictions , no tale or ftory , and has relied chiefly on the poetry of his ftile , for the purpose of interefting his readers . His ftile is con- cife and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has cife . 58 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 166
... with his bow , because he had forgotten to bring his whip with him ; and the innumerable circum- ftances which make this narration fo lively , fo fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad 166 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... with his bow , because he had forgotten to bring his whip with him ; and the innumerable circum- ftances which make this narration fo lively , fo fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad 166 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 167
Joseph Warton. fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad and the Odyfley might be quoted as examples of this way of writing . So dif- ferent from the unfinished , half - formed figures , prefented to us by many modern writers ...
Joseph Warton. fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad and the Odyfley might be quoted as examples of this way of writing . So dif- ferent from the unfinished , half - formed figures , prefented to us by many modern writers ...
Page 216
... interefting , and contain fuch marks of Chriftian re- fignation and calmnefs of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the 3d vol . of Letters , page 157. He frequently , and ably , and ...
... interefting , and contain fuch marks of Chriftian re- fignation and calmnefs of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the 3d vol . of Letters , page 157. He frequently , and ably , and ...
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