An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his Dryden , who is youth ... Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B4 ...
... POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his Dryden , who is youth ... Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that B4 ...
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... Pope's youthful translation , I shall select the following passage . He sends a monster horrible and fell ; Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The pest a virgin's face and bosom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears ...
... Pope's youthful translation , I shall select the following passage . He sends a monster horrible and fell ; Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The pest a virgin's face and bosom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears ...
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... POPE'S IMITA- TIONS of Seven English Poets , some of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anec- dote must be added ...
... POPE'S IMITA- TIONS of Seven English Poets , some of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anec- dote must be added ...
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... little drops of light . • Spenser and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whose fair hand Remov'd them from AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 39.
... little drops of light . • Spenser and Waller were POPE's great favourites , as he told Mr. Spence , in the order they are named , in his early reading . D4 Then Then at Aurora , whose fair hand Remov'd them from AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 39.
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... Pope's manner of compressing together many images , without confusion , and without superfluous epithets . Substantives and verbs are the finews of lan- guage . 9. If plagues or earthquakes break not heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia ...
... Pope's manner of compressing together many images , without confusion , and without superfluous epithets . Substantives and verbs are the finews of lan- guage . 9. If plagues or earthquakes break not heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia ...
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