An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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Joseph Warton. ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITING S OF POPE . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY , In Pall - Mall . M.DCC.LXXXII . 17 83 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS OF POPE . SECT AN.
Joseph Warton. ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITING S OF POPE . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY , In Pall - Mall . M.DCC.LXXXII . 17 83 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS OF POPE . SECT AN.
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... POPE felected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ... POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 ...
... POPE felected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ... POPE's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion feems to have arifen , that B 4 ...
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... POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The ...
... POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The ...
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Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Ar- cite in the absence of Emilia , is highly ex- preffive of the deepest distress , and a ... POPE . 13 tern of POPE, unconnected with the main ...
Joseph Warton. tern of POPE , unconnected with the main fubject of this work . The picture of Ar- cite in the absence of Emilia , is highly ex- preffive of the deepest distress , and a ... POPE . 13 tern of POPE, unconnected with the main ...
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... POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert Weft , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain marks of the firft ...
... POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert Weft , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain marks of the firft ...
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Adamo Addiſon addreffed againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe cenfured character circumftance defign Demetrius Phalereus deſcription Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant Engliſh epiftle Euripides excellent expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhew finiſhed firft firſt fome ftrong fubject fuch genius himſelf hiſtory Horace humour Iliad imitation inferted juſt laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè manner Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE Pope's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe Quintilian reaſon ridicule ſaid ſay SCENA ſee ſeems ſhall ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpirit ſtate Statius ſtrokes ſtyle ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tranſlation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε