An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 1 |
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... speaking : they most strongly exaggerate his remark- able fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral ... speak- ing , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigioufness of his ruin is wonderfully ...
... speaking : they most strongly exaggerate his remark- able fall , by an exclamation formed in the manner of funeral ... speak- ing , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigioufness of his ruin is wonderfully ...
Page 18
... speaking in order ; and behold them acting their feveral parts , as it were in a drama . One continued action is carried on ; or rather a various and manifold feries of different actions is connected ; -an excel- lence , more peculiarly ...
... speaking in order ; and behold them acting their feveral parts , as it were in a drama . One continued action is carried on ; or rather a various and manifold feries of different actions is connected ; -an excel- lence , more peculiarly ...
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... speak- ing of the miseries of the civil war to the * Ver . 233 . + Ver . 265 . The great improvements lately made near Windfor - lodge , by the duke of Cumberland , particularly the magnificent lake , and cafcade , highly deserve to be ...
... speak- ing of the miseries of the civil war to the * Ver . 233 . + Ver . 265 . The great improvements lately made near Windfor - lodge , by the duke of Cumberland , particularly the magnificent lake , and cafcade , highly deserve to be ...
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... speak of the LYRIC pieces of POPE . He used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a tranflation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after fo great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a ...
... speak of the LYRIC pieces of POPE . He used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a tranflation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after fo great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a ...
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... speak truth , there appears to be little valu- Petrarch was taught the Greek language , which was at that time unknown in Italy , by Barlaham , a learned monk of Calabria ; which country having been a colony of Greeks , retained fome ...
... speak truth , there appears to be little valu- Petrarch was taught the Greek language , which was at that time unknown in Italy , by Barlaham , a learned monk of Calabria ; which country having been a colony of Greeks , retained fome ...
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