An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... natural strokes , with fuch quaintness in his reflections , and fuch a drynefs and archness of humour , as cannot fail to excite laugh- ter . + , OUR Prior has happily caught his man- ner , in many of his lighter tales ; parti- It is to ...
... natural strokes , with fuch quaintness in his reflections , and fuch a drynefs and archness of humour , as cannot fail to excite laugh- ter . + , OUR Prior has happily caught his man- ner , in many of his lighter tales ; parti- It is to ...
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... nature of the God to whom it belonged ; and carries with it a barbarous and tremendous idea . • These passages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being remarkable . But it is not unusual for ...
... nature of the God to whom it belonged ; and carries with it a barbarous and tremendous idea . • These passages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being remarkable . But it is not unusual for ...
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... nature is thus said to sympathize at the fecond appearance of The felon on his fable fteed Arm'd with his naked sword that urg'd his dogs to speed . Thus it runs- The fiend's alarm began ; the hollow found Sung in the leaves , the ...
... nature is thus said to sympathize at the fecond appearance of The felon on his fable fteed Arm'd with his naked sword that urg'd his dogs to speed . Thus it runs- The fiend's alarm began ; the hollow found Sung in the leaves , the ...
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... nature . Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and spirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and ... natural . They are perpetually grasping at the vast , the wonderful , and the terrible . ** Kar inasor CUT OF προς ...
... nature . Statius had undoubtedly invention , ability and spirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and ... natural . They are perpetually grasping at the vast , the wonderful , and the terrible . ** Kar inasor CUT OF προς ...
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... nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of difgufting and disagreeable founds , in the following stanza of POPE , which one is almost tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a ...
... nature , than almost any writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of difgufting and disagreeable founds , in the following stanza of POPE , which one is almost tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a ...
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