An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... court , the chaste one of Auguftus . Among the various causes how- ever that have been affigned , why poetry and the arts have more eminently flourished in fome particular ages and nations , than in others , few have been fatisfactory ...
... court , the chaste one of Auguftus . Among the various causes how- ever that have been affigned , why poetry and the arts have more eminently flourished in fome particular ages and nations , than in others , few have been fatisfactory ...
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... court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inferted in the Dunciad , " As man's meanders , to the vital spring Roll all their tides , then back their circles bring , was originally in this poem ...
... court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inferted in the Dunciad , " As man's meanders , to the vital spring Roll all their tides , then back their circles bring , was originally in this poem ...
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Joseph Warton. COWLEY being early disgusted with the perplexities and vanities of a court life , had a strong defire to enjoy the milder pleasures of folitude and retirement ; he therefore escaped from the tumults of London , to a little ...
Joseph Warton. COWLEY being early disgusted with the perplexities and vanities of a court life , had a strong defire to enjoy the milder pleasures of folitude and retirement ; he therefore escaped from the tumults of London , to a little ...
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... court , proved 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 ...
... court , proved 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 ...
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... Courts , the Commons and the Lords . The unexpected flatnefs and familiarity of the laft line was thus ridiculed by Mr. Brown with much humour . Perfuafion tips his tongue whene'er he talks , And — le bas chambers in the King's - Bench ...
... Courts , the Commons and the Lords . The unexpected flatnefs and familiarity of the laft line was thus ridiculed by Mr. Brown with much humour . Perfuafion tips his tongue whene'er he talks , And — le bas chambers in the King's - Bench ...
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