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... POPE † could poffibly ex- perience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we conftantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age .
... POPE † could poffibly ex- perience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we conftantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age .
Page 57
... POPE . VIRGIL is again imitated throughout the fixth stanza , which describes the behaviour of Orpheus on the second lofs of Eurydice . I wish POPE had inferted that striking cir- * A & I. Scene II . See alfo , Scene IV . A & I . A fong ...
... POPE . VIRGIL is again imitated throughout the fixth stanza , which describes the behaviour of Orpheus on the second lofs of Eurydice . I wish POPE had inferted that striking cir- * A & I. Scene II . See alfo , Scene IV . A & I . A fong ...
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... POPE ; being at once heightened with pathos and poetic ima- gery ; and containing an oblique satire on benefactions raifed by avarice , or extorted by fear . No weeping orphan faw ... POPE . 329 is finely improved by POPE; being at once ...
... POPE ; being at once heightened with pathos and poetic ima- gery ; and containing an oblique satire on benefactions raifed by avarice , or extorted by fear . No weeping orphan faw ... POPE . 329 is finely improved by POPE; being at once ...
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