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He placed these in one of the towers of the old Louvre , which was called the tower of the library . This was the foundation of the present magnificent royal library at Paris . The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been versified ...
He placed these in one of the towers of the old Louvre , which was called the tower of the library . This was the foundation of the present magnificent royal library at Paris . The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been versified ...
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The warmth and melody of these pieces , has never been excelled in our language , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages from these three poems ...
The warmth and melody of these pieces , has never been excelled in our language , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages from these three poems ...
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These paffages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being remarkable . But it is not unusual for the fame person to succeed in defcribing externally a distressful character , who may miserably ...
These paffages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being remarkable . But it is not unusual for the fame person to succeed in defcribing externally a distressful character , who may miserably ...
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It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a severe satire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amiço .
It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a severe satire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amiço .
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Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , tantaque libidine vulgi Auditur : sed , cum fregit fubfellia verfu , Efurit . an In these verses are many expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hirit ...
Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , tantaque libidine vulgi Auditur : sed , cum fregit fubfellia verfu , Efurit . an In these verses are many expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hirit ...
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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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