An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... perfon who tranflated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage , tern tern of POPE ...
... perfon who tranflated fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage , tern tern of POPE ...
Page 64
... perfon entirely a ftranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the fea or waters , how great his astonishment would be , when finding him- felf on board fome veffel anchoring at fea , remote from all land - prospect , whilft ...
... perfon entirely a ftranger to navigation , and ignorant of the nature of the fea or waters , how great his astonishment would be , when finding him- felf on board fome veffel anchoring at fea , remote from all land - prospect , whilft ...
Page 112
... perfon , in the eighteenth line , And fled from monarchs , St. John , dwells with thee . For to fly and to dwell , cannot justly be predicated of the fame fubject , that imme- diately before was described as twining with laurels , and ...
... perfon , in the eighteenth line , And fled from monarchs , St. John , dwells with thee . For to fly and to dwell , cannot justly be predicated of the fame fubject , that imme- diately before was described as twining with laurels , and ...
Page 119
... perfon , * Ver . 373 . + Those paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this Effay are the following . Vol . iv . octavo edition , p . 223 & p . 324 ; P. 94 of vol . 5 p . 388 of ...
... perfon , * Ver . 373 . + Those paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of this Effay are the following . Vol . iv . octavo edition , p . 223 & p . 324 ; P. 94 of vol . 5 p . 388 of ...
Page 120
... perfon that had fo tender a heart for his particular friends , or a warmer benevolence for all mankind . " It is to be hoped that Bolingbroke + profited by thofe remarkable * His manner of reasoning and philofophifing has been fo ...
... perfon that had fo tender a heart for his particular friends , or a warmer benevolence for all mankind . " It is to be hoped that Bolingbroke + profited by thofe remarkable * His manner of reasoning and philofophifing has been fo ...
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Adamo Addifon addreffed Æneid againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Boileau Bolingbroke cenfure character circumftance defcription defign Demetrius Phalereus Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant Engliſh epiftle Euripides excellent expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiment fhall fhewed finiſhed firft firſt fome fpirit ftill ftory ftriking ftyle fubject fuch genius hiftory himſelf Horace Houſe humour Iliad imitation inferted interefting juft laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry Polybius POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed Quintilian reaſon reprefented rife ſay SCENA ſhall ſhould Sophocles ſpeak ſtate Statius ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tranflation uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε και