An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and obli- terated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the profufion of fuch animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to ...
... prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and obli- terated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the profufion of fuch animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to ...
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... prefent edition , I shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the seconds it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his ...
... prefent edition , I shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the seconds it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his ...
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... prefent traduced , yet pofterity will applaud his work . At ULTIMI Nepotes , SERIQUE POSTERI , Judicia rebus QUIORA forfitan Adhibebunt INTEGRO finu , Tam , livore fepulto , Si quid MEREMUR , SERA POSTERITAS sciet . COWLEY COWLEY being ...
... prefent traduced , yet pofterity will applaud his work . At ULTIMI Nepotes , SERIQUE POSTERI , Judicia rebus QUIORA forfitan Adhibebunt INTEGRO finu , Tam , livore fepulto , Si quid MEREMUR , SERA POSTERITAS sciet . COWLEY COWLEY being ...
Page 46
... prefent , but ftill he retained a fincere affection for Leonora . His death was occafioned by a fingular accident ; he • There is fomething remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY ...
... prefent , but ftill he retained a fincere affection for Leonora . His death was occafioned by a fingular accident ; he • There is fomething remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY ...
Page 57
... prefent , which treat of things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- fcriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the ...
... prefent , which treat of things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- fcriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the ...
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