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... criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or uninftructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant ...
... criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or uninftructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant ...
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... critics have agreed to extir- pate and explode . But I do not remember , that even thefe , or any critics have remarked the circumstance that gave origin to the opi- nion , that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and ...
... critics have agreed to extir- pate and explode . But I do not remember , that even thefe , or any critics have remarked the circumstance that gave origin to the opi- nion , that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and ...
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... close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS As profperity and happiness are described ...
... close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS As profperity and happiness are described ...
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... critic might have difcovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which afterwards was to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not suffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but ...
... critic might have difcovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which afterwards was to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not suffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the defcriptive kind ; but ...
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... critic be Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame , if I fhould fay , we have lately feen two or three lyric pieces , fuperiour to any he has * left us ; I mean an Ode on Lyric Poetry , and another to lord Huntingdon , by Dr ...
... critic be Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame , if I fhould fay , we have lately feen two or three lyric pieces , fuperiour to any he has * left us ; I mean an Ode on Lyric Poetry , and another to lord Huntingdon , by Dr ...
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