An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... sentiment , that the great poet had his eye on Plato ; ότι ανθρωπων ὁ σοφωτατος προς θεον πίθηκος φανείται . But I am more inclined to think that POPE bor- rowed it from a paffage in the zodiac of Palingenius , which the abovementioned ...
... sentiment , that the great poet had his eye on Plato ; ότι ανθρωπων ὁ σοφωτατος προς θεον πίθηκος φανείται . But I am more inclined to think that POPE bor- rowed it from a paffage in the zodiac of Palingenius , which the abovementioned ...
Page 103
... sentiment . Thomson has enlarged on this doctrine , with that ten- derness and humanity for which he was fo justly beloved , in his Spring , at verfe three hundred and thirty . Our poet afcribes the violence of the paffions to the use ...
... sentiment . Thomson has enlarged on this doctrine , with that ten- derness and humanity for which he was fo justly beloved , in his Spring , at verfe three hundred and thirty . Our poet afcribes the violence of the paffions to the use ...
Page 321
Joseph Warton. oppofed to Hutchefon . I know not why he omitted a strong sentiment that follows immediately , Et mihi res , non me rebus fubjungere conor * . Which line Corneille took for his motto . 39. Non tamen idcirco contemnas ...
Joseph Warton. oppofed to Hutchefon . I know not why he omitted a strong sentiment that follows immediately , Et mihi res , non me rebus fubjungere conor * . Which line Corneille took for his motto . 39. Non tamen idcirco contemnas ...
Page 407
... sentiments and opinions . And by their own account of themselves , they would have the reader believe that they had engroffed and monopolized all the ge- nius , and all the honesty of the age , in which , according to their opinion ...
... sentiments and opinions . And by their own account of themselves , they would have the reader believe that they had engroffed and monopolized all the ge- nius , and all the honesty of the age , in which , according to their opinion ...
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