An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundeft reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
... should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundeft reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
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... vfus Tμ . y . Sect . iii . They should read the fenfible difcourfe of S. Wedrenfels , of Balle , De Me teoris Orationis . Promifitque Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , 22 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... vfus Tμ . y . Sect . iii . They should read the fenfible difcourfe of S. Wedrenfels , of Balle , De Me teoris Orationis . Promifitque Promifitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos Afficit ille animos , 22 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... should be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been used to the surprising juice of the grape , render up their reason to the first delicious cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what ...
... should be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been used to the surprising juice of the grape , render up their reason to the first delicious cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what ...
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... it is excelled That Rochefter should write a fatire on Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain .: Vol . II . pag . 434i Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 48 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS POPE in this imitation has difcovered a ...
... it is excelled That Rochefter should write a fatire on Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain .: Vol . II . pag . 434i Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 48 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS POPE in this imitation has difcovered a ...
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... should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the ...
... should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the ...
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