An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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Page 12
... elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the fpirited and harmo- nious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them ...
... elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the fpirited and harmo- nious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them ...
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... elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compofitions . To imitate Spenser on a subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true reprefentation of him , for he seems to be more awake and alive to ...
... elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compofitions . To imitate Spenser on a subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true reprefentation of him , for he seems to be more awake and alive to ...
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... elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own design , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to ...
... elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own design , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to ...
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... elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the feverity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that these two qua- lities are by no means incompatible . The greatest wits , fays ...
... elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the feverity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that these two qua- lities are by no means incompatible . The greatest wits , fays ...
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... elegant Latin of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from fome beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic poem ...
... elegant Latin of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from fome beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic poem ...
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