An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... once a twelvemonth . " It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the ...
... once a twelvemonth . " It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the ...
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... once and cry'd . There is an incomparable wildness in the vifion of Theodore and Honoria * , that represents the furious spectre of " the horseman ghost that came thundering for his prey , " and of the gaunt mastiffs that tore the fides ...
... once and cry'd . There is an incomparable wildness in the vifion of Theodore and Honoria * , that represents the furious spectre of " the horseman ghost that came thundering for his prey , " and of the gaunt mastiffs that tore the fides ...
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... once the wind was laid — the whisp'ring found Was dumb - a rifing earthquake rock'd the ground : With deeper brown the grove was overspread , And his ears tingled , and his colour fled . The fenfations of a man upon the approach of fome ...
... once the wind was laid — the whisp'ring found Was dumb - a rifing earthquake rock'd the ground : With deeper brown the grove was overspread , And his ears tingled , and his colour fled . The fenfations of a man upon the approach of fome ...
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... once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have exhibited a general view of their poefie , throughout its ...
... once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have exhibited a general view of their poefie , throughout its ...
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... once fo gallant and fo lofty ? The English verfification was much smoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his num- bers from Fairfax's Taffo , who well- vowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious ...
... once fo gallant and fo lofty ? The English verfification was much smoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his num- bers from Fairfax's Taffo , who well- vowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious ...
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