An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... Some faint tra- ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages , as they are called ; and it is not impoffible , but thefe have been the parents of the Genii in the eastern , and the B ...
... Some faint tra- ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages , as they are called ; and it is not impoffible , but thefe have been the parents of the Genii in the eastern , and the B ...
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... some lafting curse entail , Which o'er their children's children shall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which thefe dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on ...
... some lafting curse entail , Which o'er their children's children shall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which thefe dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on ...
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... some new circumftance , without any violation of the unity of the ftory ; the texture , fays he , is so artful that it may be com- pared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies fo gradually , and the light revives so ...
... some new circumftance , without any violation of the unity of the ftory ; the texture , fays he , is so artful that it may be com- pared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies fo gradually , and the light revives so ...
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... Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that constitute Spenser's character . I have a peculiar pleasure in mentioning ...
... Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that constitute Spenser's character . I have a peculiar pleasure in mentioning ...
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... Some of thefe writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyist , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are ...
... Some of thefe writers thinking themselves burlesqued , are faid to have been mortified . But POPE obferved on the occafion , " Brown is an excellent copyist , and those who take his imitations amifs , are much in the wrong ; they are ...
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