An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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Page 34
... letter to Mr. Mafon , on the Marks of imitation , pag . 19 , and in Obfervations on the Faery Queen , pag . 2 , 3. 4. " How happened it , fays Mr. Hurd , that Sir Philip Sydney in his Arcadia , and afterwards Spenfer in his Faery Queen ...
... letter to Mr. Mafon , on the Marks of imitation , pag . 19 , and in Obfervations on the Faery Queen , pag . 2 , 3. 4. " How happened it , fays Mr. Hurd , that Sir Philip Sydney in his Arcadia , and afterwards Spenfer in his Faery Queen ...
Page 54
... Letters is taken from the Turkish Spy . Boiardo has imi- tated Pulci , Ariofto has imitated Boiardo . The geniuses , apparently moft original , borrow from each other * . I SHALL conclude this fection with a ftory , which POPE himself ...
... Letters is taken from the Turkish Spy . Boiardo has imi- tated Pulci , Ariofto has imitated Boiardo . The geniuses , apparently moft original , borrow from each other * . I SHALL conclude this fection with a ftory , which POPE himself ...
Page 60
... letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and agreeably in that science , from any one head : { confefs in fome places I was forced ...
... letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and agreeably in that science , from any one head : { confefs in fome places I was forced ...
Page 82
... letter on the Marks of imitation , is induced to think , from the fingularity of this sentiment , that the great poet had his eye on Plato ; ότι ανθρωπων ὁ σοφωτατος προς θεον πίθηκος φανείται . But I am more inclined to think that POPE ...
... letter on the Marks of imitation , is induced to think , from the fingularity of this sentiment , that the great poet had his eye on Plato ; ότι ανθρωπων ὁ σοφωτατος προς θεον πίθηκος φανείται . But I am more inclined to think that POPE ...
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... letter from Par to Racine , which concludes with these remarkable words . " I declare therefore loudly and with the greatest fincerity , that my fentiments are diametrically oppcfite to thofe of Spinoza , and even of Leibnitz . They are ...
... letter from Par to Racine , which concludes with these remarkable words . " I declare therefore loudly and with the greatest fincerity , that my fentiments are diametrically oppcfite to thofe of Spinoza , and even of Leibnitz . They are ...
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