An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... POETs . T HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered ...
... POETs . T HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered ...
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... poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but swept , like a drag - net , great and small . There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ; whole pyramids of fweet ...
... poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but swept , like a drag - net , great and small . There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ; whole pyramids of fweet ...
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... poems ; and the reader must not think any obfervations on the character of Dryden , the conftant pat* The falling off of his hair , said a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to be seen the A person who ...
... poems ; and the reader must not think any obfervations on the character of Dryden , the conftant pat* The falling off of his hair , said a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to be seen the A person who ...
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... poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , " The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beaft nor human kind repair ; The fowl , that ...
... poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , " The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beaft nor human kind repair ; The fowl , that ...
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... poets who are unexceptionably excellent ; namely , TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATULLUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PROPERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking C4 and and writing . Succeeding authors ...
... poets who are unexceptionably excellent ; namely , TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATULLUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PROPERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking C4 and and writing . Succeeding authors ...
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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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