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Page 11
... ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Eclogue , that ...
... ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Eclogue , that ...
Page 37
... the Paffion , in the fame volume ; and a vacation exercise , pag . 9 . in all which are to be found many ftrokes of the fublime . D 3 Attention Attention is irresistibly awakened and enga- ged by that air AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
... the Paffion , in the fame volume ; and a vacation exercise , pag . 9 . in all which are to be found many ftrokes of the fublime . D 3 Attention Attention is irresistibly awakened and enga- ged by that air AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
Page 86
... ftrokes , not to be found in that of his rival . It was easy to discern a genius that promised to produce beauties , to which the sweet , the gentle , and the graceful Guido would never aspire . THE laft piece that belongs to this ...
... ftrokes , not to be found in that of his rival . It was easy to discern a genius that promised to produce beauties , to which the sweet , the gentle , and the graceful Guido would never aspire . THE laft piece that belongs to this ...
Page 158
... ftrokes of that fervid and wild imagination , fo vifi- ble in his landschapes . 31 . If wit fo much from ign'rance undergo * . THE inconveniences that attend wit are well enumerated in this excellent paffage . Poets , who imagine they ...
... ftrokes of that fervid and wild imagination , fo vifi- ble in his landschapes . 31 . If wit fo much from ign'rance undergo * . THE inconveniences that attend wit are well enumerated in this excellent paffage . Poets , who imagine they ...
Page 172
... ftrokes of his art : many of them pass at pre- fent unobferved : and that his cotemporaries were equally blind to this beauty , he him- felf complains , though with a seeming irony , 7 " Cum lamentamur non APPARERE labores Noftros , et ...
... ftrokes of his art : many of them pass at pre- fent unobferved : and that his cotemporaries were equally blind to this beauty , he him- felf complains , though with a seeming irony , 7 " Cum lamentamur non APPARERE labores Noftros , et ...
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Abelard Addiſon addreffed alfo alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumftance cloſe compofition Corneille defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegance Eloifa epic poetry epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftanza ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fylphs genius greateſt hiftory himſelf Homer Iliad images imagination inferted inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft Loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion painted pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes prefent profe publiſhed quæ Quintilian Racine racter raiſed reafon refpect repreſent ſay ſcene ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpecies ſtory ſtrong ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe writing