An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... those of things , we fhall find this 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 ...
... those of things , we fhall find this 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 ...
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... those certain marks of the first sketch of a master , conspire to corro- borate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that ...
... those certain marks of the first sketch of a master , conspire to corro- borate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that ...
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... those shrilling cries confound ; To her full pipes the grunting hog replies ; The grunting hogs alarm the neighbours round , And curs , girls , boys , in the deep base are drown'd . The very turn of these numbers , bears the closest ...
... those shrilling cries confound ; To her full pipes the grunting hog replies ; The grunting hogs alarm the neighbours round , And curs , girls , boys , in the deep base are drown'd . The very turn of these numbers , bears the closest ...
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... those works ; in which the ftory proceeds as it were by fnatches , and with continual interruptions ? How was the good fenfe of those writers , fo converfant befides in the best models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous ...
... those works ; in which the ftory proceeds as it were by fnatches , and with continual interruptions ? How was the good fenfe of those writers , fo converfant befides in the best models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous ...
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... Those little drops of light . * Spenfer and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whofe fair hand . Remov'd them AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
... Those little drops of light . * Spenfer and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whofe fair hand . Remov'd them AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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