An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... writing , by his Belphegor . To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we should be ...
... writing , by his Belphegor . To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we should be ...
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... writing ; and perhaps knew it was a fault , but hoped the reader would not find it . For this reafon , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer efteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have ...
... writing ; and perhaps knew it was a fault , but hoped the reader would not find it . For this reafon , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer efteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have ...
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... writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always refpected + , found him in an unusual agitation of fpirits , even to â trembling . On enquiring the cause , “ I have ...
... writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always refpected + , found him in an unusual agitation of fpirits , even to â trembling . On enquiring the cause , “ I have ...
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... TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATULLUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PROPERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking C4 and and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 23.
... TERENCE , LUCRETIUS , CATULLUS , VIRGIL , HORACE , TIBULLUS , PROPERTIUS , PHÆDRUS . These only can be called legitimate models of just thinking C4 and and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 23.
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Joseph Warton. and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in all countries , refolving to be original and new , and to avoid the imputation of copying , became distorted and unnatural by endeavouring to open an unbeaten path , they ...
Joseph Warton. and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in all countries , refolving to be original and new , and to avoid the imputation of copying , became distorted and unnatural by endeavouring to open an unbeaten path , they ...
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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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