An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... despised Chaucer . I am not furprized at this frange judgment Cowley was indif putably a Genius , but his taste was perverted and narrowed by a love of witticisms . 2 of of Cowley . " Chaucer is a perpetual foun- tain 8 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... despised Chaucer . I am not furprized at this frange judgment Cowley was indif putably a Genius , but his taste was perverted and narrowed by a love of witticisms . 2 of of Cowley . " Chaucer is a perpetual foun- tain 8 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... taste in poetry , among the Romans . From the time of Lucretius , to that of Statius , was no more than about one hundred and forty- feven years ; and if I might venture to pro- nounce so rigorous a sentence , I would say , that the ...
... taste in poetry , among the Romans . From the time of Lucretius , to that of Statius , was no more than about one hundred and forty- feven years ; and if I might venture to pro- nounce so rigorous a sentence , I would say , that the ...
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... taste , on whom POPE employed some of his youthful hours ; in translating the fto- ries of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to be fo diligently read . The ...
... taste , on whom POPE employed some of his youthful hours ; in translating the fto- ries of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to be fo diligently read . The ...
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... taste and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will always form an agreeable and pleafing picture ; but the pencil of the English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and ...
... taste and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will always form an agreeable and pleafing picture ; but the pencil of the English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and ...
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... taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excess , in allufions to mythology and the ancient claffics . The French , as may be imagined ...
... taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excess , in allufions to mythology and the ancient claffics . The French , as may be imagined ...
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