An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... circumstance of Dryden and POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B4 Chaucer's Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 7.
... circumstance of Dryden and POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B4 Chaucer's Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 7.
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Joseph Warton. Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light and the ridiculous * . But they who look into Chaucer , will foon be con- vinced of this prevailing prejudice , and will find his comic vein , like that of ...
Joseph Warton. Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light and the ridiculous * . But they who look into Chaucer , will foon be con- vinced of this prevailing prejudice , and will find his comic vein , like that of ...
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... who may mife- rably fail in putting proper words in the mouth of fuch a character . In a word , so much more difficult is DRAMATIC than DESCRIPTIVE poetry ! The The frame of burnish'd steel that cast a glare From AND WRITINGS OF POPE . ας.
... who may mife- rably fail in putting proper words in the mouth of fuch a character . In a word , so much more difficult is DRAMATIC than DESCRIPTIVE poetry ! The The frame of burnish'd steel that cast a glare From AND WRITINGS OF POPE . ας.
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... poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and soberly to attend to the anachronism on so striking an occafion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and pro- priety is forgot ...
... poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and soberly to attend to the anachronism on so striking an occafion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and pro- priety is forgot ...
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... poetry above that of any other nation . This anecdote , as true as it is curious , was imparted by Lord Bolingbroke to POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert West , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and ...
... poetry above that of any other nation . This anecdote , as true as it is curious , was imparted by Lord Bolingbroke to POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert West , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and ...
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