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... guage any particular decoration to his ftyle ; he only uses French words , when the force and meaning of the paffages fo quoted depend on the pe- culiar turn and idiom of the original . 4 I. AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS O.
... guage any particular decoration to his ftyle ; he only uses French words , when the force and meaning of the paffages fo quoted depend on the pe- culiar turn and idiom of the original . 4 I. AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS O.
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... original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master . If it fhould be objected , that the barren- nefs of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the ...
... original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian master . If it fhould be objected , that the barren- nefs of invention imputed to POPE from a view of his PASTORALS , is equally imputable to the ...
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... and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and useless circumlocutions . See See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II } ...
... and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and useless circumlocutions . See See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II } ...
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... original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his defcriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to thofe , of poets who have only copied from each other ...
... original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his defcriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to thofe , of poets who have only copied from each other ...
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... originals , excepting a few of those blemishes intimated above . WINTER is in my apprehenfion the most valuable of these four poems ; the fcenes of it , like those of Il Penferofo of Milton , being of that awful , folemn , and penfive ...
... originals , excepting a few of those blemishes intimated above . WINTER is in my apprehenfion the most valuable of these four poems ; the fcenes of it , like those of Il Penferofo of Milton , being of that awful , folemn , and penfive ...
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