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THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into difgrace by an unfuitable match , is fupported in a lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into difgrace by an unfuitable match , is fupported in a lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
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OUR Prior has happily caught his manner , in many of his lighter tales ; partiIt is to be lamented that Fontaine has fo frequently tranfgreffed the bounds of modefty . Boileau did not look upon Fontaine as an original writer , and used ...
OUR Prior has happily caught his manner , in many of his lighter tales ; partiIt is to be lamented that Fontaine has fo frequently tranfgreffed the bounds of modefty . Boileau did not look upon Fontaine as an original writer , and used ...
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I 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 ...
I 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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THE first of these Imitations is of Chaucer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original ... He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece ...
THE first of these Imitations is of Chaucer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original ... He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece ...
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of which every one is confcious , is usually afcribed to the change of manners ; but manners have more changed fince Homer's age , and yet that poet remains fill the favourite of every reader of taste and judgment .
of which every one is confcious , is usually afcribed to the change of manners ; but manners have more changed fince Homer's age , and yet that poet remains fill the favourite of every reader of taste and judgment .
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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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