An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 43
Page 6
... fatires with it ; Malespini also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not ...
... fatires with it ; Malespini also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not ...
Page 7
... fatire Menippeè cannot be read , without voluminous commentaries . THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE felected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ...
... fatire Menippeè cannot be read , without voluminous commentaries . THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE felected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse ...
Page 22
... fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit cum Statius urbem , • Writers of this ftamp are always on the ftretch ...
... fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit cum Statius urbem , • Writers of this ftamp are always on the ftretch ...
Page 48
... fatire be copied , yet it is excelled That Rochefter should write a fatire on Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain .: Vol . II . pag . 434i Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 48 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS POPE in this imitation has ...
... fatire be copied , yet it is excelled That Rochefter should write a fatire on Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain .: Vol . II . pag . 434i Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 48 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS POPE in this imitation has ...
Page 50
... 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 Addison , I have ever conversed with , were perfons of the best tempers ...
... 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 Addison , I have ever conversed with , were perfons of the best tempers ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adamo Addiſon addreffed againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe cenfured character circumftance defign Demetrius Phalereus deſcription Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant Engliſh epiftle Euripides excellent expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhew finiſhed firft firſt fome ftrong fubject fuch genius himſelf hiſtory Horace humour Iliad imitation inferted juſt laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè manner Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE Pope's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe Quintilian reaſon ridicule ſaid ſay SCENA ſee ſeems ſhall ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpirit ſtate Statius ſtrokes ſtyle ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tranſlation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε