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Ovid is also ancther writer of a bad taste , on whom Pope employed some of his youthful hours ; in translating the stories of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought ...
Ovid is also ancther writer of a bad taste , on whom Pope employed some of his youthful hours ; in translating the stories of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought ...
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Above all , he commends him for his unforced transitions , and for the ease with which he slides into some new circumstance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be pared to ...
Above all , he commends him for his unforced transitions , and for the ease with which he slides into some new circumstance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be pared to ...
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We are now advanced , through many digressions , that I would hope are not wholly impertinent , to Pope's IMITATIONS of Seven English Poets , some of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been ...
We are now advanced , through many digressions , that I would hope are not wholly impertinent , to Pope's IMITATIONS of Seven English Poets , some of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been ...
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The scene of it lay at Rhodes , and some of the neighbouring illands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a description of the court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inserted in the ...
The scene of it lay at Rhodes , and some of the neighbouring illands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a description of the court of Neptune . That couplet on the circulation of the blood , which I afterwards inserted in the ...
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... of our young imitator with so much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . • Book II . Canto 12. Stanza 75 . Tho The next stanza of Pope represents some allegorical figures , 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... of our young imitator with so much admiration , as not to have fuffered him to make a kind of travesty of them . • Book II . Canto 12. Stanza 75 . Tho The next stanza of Pope represents some allegorical figures , 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 30 Mar 2018 |
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