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Joseph Warton. ANA S A Y E S S ON THE GENIUS AND WRITING S OF POP E. The THIRD EDITION , Corrected . Satyra quidem tota noftra eft : in qua primus infignem laudem adeptus eft Lucilius ; qui quofdam ita deditos fibi adhuc habet amatores ...
Joseph Warton. ANA S A Y E S S ON THE GENIUS AND WRITING S OF POP E. The THIRD EDITION , Corrected . Satyra quidem tota noftra eft : in qua primus infignem laudem adeptus eft Lucilius ; qui quofdam ita deditos fibi adhuc habet amatores ...
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... and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which fo few can properly judge . A 3 FOR FOR One perfon who can adequate . ly relish , DEDICATION .
... and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which fo few can properly judge . A 3 FOR FOR One perfon who can adequate . ly relish , DEDICATION .
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... is not intended as a complete ca- talogue of writers , and in their proper order , but only to mark out briefly the different fpecies of our celebrated au- thors thors . ^ In which of these claffes POPE deferves xik DEDICATION .
... is not intended as a complete ca- talogue of writers , and in their proper order , but only to mark out briefly the different fpecies of our celebrated au- thors thors . ^ In which of these claffes POPE deferves xik DEDICATION .
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... writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abun- dant to be real , referred them to the ficti- tious and imaginary scenes of a golden age . · A MIXTURE of British and Grecian ideas may justly be deemed a blemish in the PAS- TORALS ...
... writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abun- dant to be real , referred them to the ficti- tious and imaginary scenes of a golden age . · A MIXTURE of British and Grecian ideas may justly be deemed a blemish in the PAS- TORALS ...
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... 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 Bucolics of ...
... 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 Bucolics of ...
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