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... reader , that a clear head , and acute understanding are not fufficient , alone , to make a POET ; that the most folid obfervations on human life , ex- preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that ...
... reader , that a clear head , and acute understanding are not fufficient , alone , to make a POET ; that the most folid obfervations on human life , ex- preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that ...
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... reader is referred , at all more appropriated . The ftag - chafe , that imme- diately follows , although fome of the lines are incomparably good , is not fo full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE ...
... reader is referred , at all more appropriated . The ftag - chafe , that imme- diately follows , although fome of the lines are incomparably good , is not fo full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE ...
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... reader , than a moral one . When POPE therefore has defcribed a pheasant fhot , he breaks out into a very masterly ex- clamations 8 Ah ! what avail his gloffy varying dyes , His purple creft , and scarlet - circled eyes , The vivid ...
... reader , than a moral one . When POPE therefore has defcribed a pheasant fhot , he breaks out into a very masterly ex- clamations 8 Ah ! what avail his gloffy varying dyes , His purple creft , and scarlet - circled eyes , The vivid ...
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... readers , till they were set to admirable mufic by Mr. Handel . And indeed this volume of Mil- ton's miscellaneous poems has not till very lately met with fuitable regard . Shall I of- fend any rational admirer of POPE by re- marking ...
... readers , till they were set to admirable mufic by Mr. Handel . And indeed this volume of Mil- ton's miscellaneous poems has not till very lately met with fuitable regard . Shall I of- fend any rational admirer of POPE by re- marking ...
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... reader , efpecially at this time , Milton was of the Italian Poets . It is certain that Milton , in the beginning of the ode , had the third fonnet of Petrarch ftrong in his fancy , Era ' l giorno , ch ' al fol fi fcoloraro Per la pietà ...
... reader , efpecially at this time , Milton was of the Italian Poets . It is certain that Milton , in the beginning of the ode , had the third fonnet of Petrarch ftrong in his fancy , Era ' l giorno , ch ' al fol fi fcoloraro Per la pietà ...
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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