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Page 116
... satire , and is new ; as is the application of the infects of the Nile . POPE never fhines so brightly as when he is profcribing bad authors . 7 5. In the foul while MEMORY prevails , The folid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails Where beams ...
... satire , and is new ; as is the application of the infects of the Nile . POPE never fhines so brightly as when he is profcribing bad authors . 7 5. In the foul while MEMORY prevails , The folid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails Where beams ...
Page 120
... satire to say , that the reasoning of them is sophistical and inconclufive , the style dif- fuse and verbose , and the learning feemingly contained in them not drawn from the ori- ginals , but picked up and purloined from French critics ...
... satire to say , that the reasoning of them is sophistical and inconclufive , the style dif- fuse and verbose , and the learning feemingly contained in them not drawn from the ori- ginals , but picked up and purloined from French critics ...
Page 252
... SATIRE extant that it contains the truest and livelieft picture of modern life ; and that the fubject is of a more elegant nature , as well as more artfully conducted , than that of any other heroi - comic poem . POPE here appears in ...
... SATIRE extant that it contains the truest and livelieft picture of modern life ; and that the fubject is of a more elegant nature , as well as more artfully conducted , than that of any other heroi - comic poem . POPE here appears in ...
Page 344
... propriety little relished . For WIT and SATIRE are tranfitory and perishable , but NATURE and PASSION are eternal . END OF THE FIRST VOLUME . non sentirnent " The two most destructive ensimies of a 344 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS , & c .
... propriety little relished . For WIT and SATIRE are tranfitory and perishable , but NATURE and PASSION are eternal . END OF THE FIRST VOLUME . non sentirnent " The two most destructive ensimies of a 344 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS , & c .
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