An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... ancients ? The cave of Polypheme might furnish out the ideas of their giants , and Andromeda might give occafion for ftories of diftreffed damfels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at fuch a critical feafon by ...
... ancients ? The cave of Polypheme might furnish out the ideas of their giants , and Andromeda might give occafion for ftories of diftreffed damfels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at fuch a critical feafon by ...
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... ancient mythology . WE of this nation have been remarkably barren in our inventions of facts ; we have been chiefly borrowers in this fpecies of compofition ; as the plots of our most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may ...
... ancient mythology . WE of this nation have been remarkably barren in our inventions of facts ; we have been chiefly borrowers in this fpecies of compofition ; as the plots of our most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may ...
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... ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but fwept , like a drag - net , great and small . There was plenty enough ...
... ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but fwept , like a drag - net , great and small . There was plenty enough ...
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... ancient heroes , fuch as Thefeus . and Lycurgus , prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and obli- terated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the profufion of fuch animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the ...
... ancient heroes , fuch as Thefeus . and Lycurgus , prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and obli- terated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the profufion of fuch animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the ...
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... ancient expreffions , than in catch- ing his real manner . Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that constitute ...
... ancient expreffions , than in catch- ing his real manner . Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that constitute ...
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