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Page 83
... satire fo called , were fuch as our poet remember- ed from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . QUINTILIAN , whofe knowledge of hu- man nature was confummate , has obferved , that ...
... satire fo called , were fuch as our poet remember- ed from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . QUINTILIAN , whofe knowledge of hu- man nature was confummate , has obferved , that ...
Page 116
... satire , and is new ; as is the application of the infects of the Nile . POPE never fhines fo brightly as when he is profcribing bad authors . 5. In the foul while MEMORY prevails , The folid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails ; Where beams ...
... satire , and is new ; as is the application of the infects of the Nile . POPE never fhines fo brightly as when he is profcribing bad authors . 5. In the foul while MEMORY prevails , The folid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails ; Where beams ...
Page 245
... satire are they enumerated ! Thrice from my trembling hand the patch - box fell ; The tottering china fhook without a wind † . + Ibid . ver . 161 . * Cant . iv . ver . 156 . And R 3 And still more to aggravate the direfulness of the ...
... satire are they enumerated ! Thrice from my trembling hand the patch - box fell ; The tottering china fhook without a wind † . + Ibid . ver . 161 . * Cant . iv . ver . 156 . And R 3 And still more to aggravate the direfulness of the ...
Page 252
... SATIRE extant ; that it contains the truest and livelieft picture of modern life ; and that the subject is of a more elegant nature , as well as more artfully conducted , than that of any other heroi - comic poem . POPE here appears in ...
... SATIRE extant ; that it contains the truest and livelieft picture of modern life ; and that the subject is of a more elegant nature , as well as more artfully conducted , than that of any other heroi - comic poem . POPE here appears in ...
Page 297
... satires of that poet , Dryden himself tranflated but fix . We can now boast of happy translations in verse , of almost all the great poets of antiquity ; whilst the French chave been poorly contented with only profe stranflations of ...
... satires of that poet , Dryden himself tranflated but fix . We can now boast of happy translations in verse , of almost all the great poets of antiquity ; whilst the French chave been poorly contented with only profe stranflations of ...
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