An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1762 |
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... strong in his fancy , Era ' l giorno , ch'al fol si scoloraro Per la pietà del suo fattore i rai ; Quand ' , & c . + Milton's Mifcellaneous Poems , vol . ii . pag . 19 . Іт * Winter , Ver . 735 . + Summer , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... strong in his fancy , Era ' l giorno , ch'al fol si scoloraro Per la pietà del suo fattore i rai ; Quand ' , & c . + Milton's Mifcellaneous Poems , vol . ii . pag . 19 . Іт * Winter , Ver . 735 . + Summer , 40 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual observations : his descriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which ...
... strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual observations : his descriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which ...
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... strong , and the transitions bold , and there is a just mixture of sentiment and imagery ; and particularly , they are animated with a noble spirit of liberty . I must refer the reader to the characters of Alcæus and of Milton in the ...
... strong , and the transitions bold , and there is a just mixture of sentiment and imagery ; and particularly , they are animated with a noble spirit of liberty . I must refer the reader to the characters of Alcæus and of Milton in the ...
Page 75
... patron , influence the exertion or the suppreffion of genius . These stanzas on Soli- tude , are a strong instance of that contem- plative L2 plative and moral turn , which was the distin- guishing AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 75.
... patron , influence the exertion or the suppreffion of genius . These stanzas on Soli- tude , are a strong instance of that contem- plative L2 plative and moral turn , which was the distin- guishing AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 75.
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... strong , that he spoke of them with pleasure to the period of his life . About ten , being now at school at Hide - park corner , whither he went from a popish semi- nary at Twiford , near Winchester , he was carried sometimes to the ...
... strong , that he spoke of them with pleasure to the period of his life . About ten , being now at school at Hide - park corner , whither he went from a popish semi- nary at Twiford , near Winchester , he was carried sometimes to the ...
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Page 40 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 225 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 310 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Page 314 - Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
Page 134 - ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule.
Page 38 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 13 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Page 184 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 97 - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Page 153 - Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give( And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away...