An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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Page 34
... fenfe of those writers , fo converfant befides in the beft models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous method ? The answer , no doubt is , that they were copying the defign , or disorder rather of Ariofto , the favourite poet ...
... fenfe of those writers , fo converfant befides in the beft models of anti- quity , feduced into this prepofterous method ? The answer , no doubt is , that they were copying the defign , or disorder rather of Ariofto , the favourite poet ...
Page 48
... fenfe will allow any man to read . Rochefter had much energy in his thoughts and diction , and though the ancient satirifts often ufe great liberty in their expreffions ; yet , as the ingenious hiftorian * observes , " their freedom no ...
... fenfe will allow any man to read . Rochefter had much energy in his thoughts and diction , and though the ancient satirifts often ufe great liberty in their expreffions ; yet , as the ingenious hiftorian * observes , " their freedom no ...
Page 71
... fenfe of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is , how would a perpetual noise distract us ; and we Locke's Essay on Human Understanding , vol . I , pag . 256 . + Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag ...
... fenfe of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is , how would a perpetual noise distract us ; and we Locke's Essay on Human Understanding , vol . I , pag . 256 . + Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag ...
Page 117
... fenfe , and a penetrating knowledge of men and things , expreffed with vigour and con- cifeness , 51. Self - love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake , As the fmall pebble stirs the peaceful lake † . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , vol . iv ...
... fenfe , and a penetrating knowledge of men and things , expreffed with vigour and con- cifeness , 51. Self - love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake , As the fmall pebble stirs the peaceful lake † . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , vol . iv ...
Page 135
... of human nature ; more fenfe and obfervation cannot well be com- pressed and concluded in a narrower space . • Ver . 127 . K4 + Ver 182 . This This paffage might be drawn oùt intò a voluminous commentary AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 135.
... of human nature ; more fenfe and obfervation cannot well be com- pressed and concluded in a narrower space . • Ver . 127 . K4 + Ver 182 . This This paffage might be drawn oùt intò a voluminous commentary AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 135.
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