An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... pieces of afcetic devotion , compofed by him , are preferved in the libraries of Italy . Lord Bacon fays remarkably of Machiavel , that he teaches what men ufually do , not what they ought to do . boon 2 been ever invented . Facts and ...
... pieces of afcetic devotion , compofed by him , are preferved in the libraries of Italy . Lord Bacon fays remarkably of Machiavel , that he teaches what men ufually do , not what they ought to do . boon 2 been ever invented . Facts and ...
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... piece of Chaucer which POPE felected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us that he would not verify it on ...
... piece of Chaucer which POPE felected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us that he would not verify it on ...
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... piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocofe old worhan ...
... piece before us , are spirited and easy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocofe old worhan ...
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... pieces , has never been excelled in our lan- guage , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader muft not ...
... pieces , has never been excelled in our lan- guage , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader muft not ...
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... the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majesty of grief destroys : VOL . II . C For For bending o'er the cup , the tears the fhed AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 17.
... the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majesty of grief destroys : VOL . II . C For For bending o'er the cup , the tears the fhed AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 17.
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