An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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Page 30
... speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the seconds it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece , would ...
... speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the seconds it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece , would ...
Page 38
... Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have ...
... Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have ...
Page 67
... speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great mary to the harmony of the line , but also , to the reafoning of the context . • Ouevres de Voltaire : Tom . 18. pag . 227 . + Ver . 81 ...
... speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great mary to the harmony of the line , but also , to the reafoning of the context . • Ouevres de Voltaire : Tom . 18. pag . 227 . + Ver . 81 ...
Page 85
... speaking of which POPE was fond , ftudious as he was of brevity , and which often betrayed him into the fame fault : Paffions , that court an aim , is furely a strange expreffion . 25. In lazy apathy let Stoics boaft Their virtue fix'd ...
... speaking of which POPE was fond , ftudious as he was of brevity , and which often betrayed him into the fame fault : Paffions , that court an aim , is furely a strange expreffion . 25. In lazy apathy let Stoics boaft Their virtue fix'd ...
Page 96
... speak ; but fuch as I am , I must declare I have never wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly fatis- fied t . " 34 . See matter next , with various life endu'd , Prefs to one centre ftill , the gen'ral good ...
... speak ; but fuch as I am , I must declare I have never wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly fatis- fied t . " 34 . See matter next , with various life endu'd , Prefs to one centre ftill , the gen'ral good ...
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