An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... young babes before their parent's eyes , And feeds and thrives on public miferies * . Oedipus , in Statius , behaves with the fury ▸ B. I. ver . 703 . of of a blustering bully ; in Sophocles * , with AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
... young babes before their parent's eyes , And feeds and thrives on public miferies * . Oedipus , in Statius , behaves with the fury ▸ B. I. ver . 703 . of of a blustering bully ; in Sophocles * , with AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
Page 32
... young imitator with fo much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . Book II . Canto 12. Stanza 71 . The THE next stanza of POPE represents fome allegorical figures , 1 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... young imitator with fo much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . Book II . Canto 12. Stanza 71 . The THE next stanza of POPE represents fome allegorical figures , 1 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison with Rochefter's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled That Rochefter should write a fatire on Hume's ...
... young as he was , at the time he compofed it . I believe on a fair comparison with Rochefter's lines , it will be found , that although the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled That Rochefter should write a fatire on Hume's ...
Page 51
... Young , Phillips , Cib- ber . 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 ...
... Young , Phillips , Cib- ber . 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 ...
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... Young , Dr. Defaguliers , ind others . Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in one of his letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules ...
... Young , Dr. Defaguliers , ind others . Even Swift feems to have been deceived : There is a remarkable paffage in one of his letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules ...
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