An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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Page 31
... almost any writer I can recollect . There is an afssemblage of disgusting and disagreeable sounds , in the following stanza of Pope , which one is almost tempted to think , if it were possible , had been contrived as a contrast , or ...
... almost any writer I can recollect . There is an afssemblage of disgusting and disagreeable sounds , in the following stanza of Pope , which one is almost tempted to think , if it were possible , had been contrived as a contrast , or ...
Page 33
... almost all his readers . " This effect , says he , [ History of England , pag . 738. ] of which every one is confcious , is usually ascribed to the change of man- ners ; but manners have more changed fince Homer's age , and yet that ...
... almost all his readers . " This effect , says he , [ History of England , pag . 738. ] of which every one is confcious , is usually ascribed to the change of man- ners ; but manners have more changed fince Homer's age , and yet that ...
Page 40
... almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher scenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed in the higher scenes of poetry and fiction , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 49
... almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the Grand Rebellion , as the gloomy superstition , the absurd cant , and formal hypocrify that disgraced this nation , during the ...
... almost as pernicious to the progress of polite literature and the fine arts that began to revive after the Grand Rebellion , as the gloomy superstition , the absurd cant , and formal hypocrify that disgraced this nation , during the ...
Page 77
... almost tempted to re- tract an assertion in the beginning of this work , that there is nothing transcendently fublime in POPE . These lines have all . the energy and harmony that can be given to rhyme . They bear so marvellous a fimi ...
... almost tempted to re- tract an assertion in the beginning of this work , that there is nothing transcendently fublime in POPE . These lines have all . the energy and harmony that can be given to rhyme . They bear so marvellous a fimi ...
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