An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 116
... strike the guilty . -Tum fulmina mittat ; et ædes Sæpe fuas difturbet , et in deferta recedens Sæviat , exercens telum , quod fæpe nocentes Præterit , exanimatque indignos , inque merentes * . He has turned the infult into a magni ...
... strike the guilty . -Tum fulmina mittat ; et ædes Sæpe fuas difturbet , et in deferta recedens Sæviat , exercens telum , quod fæpe nocentes Præterit , exanimatque indignos , inque merentes * . He has turned the infult into a magni ...
Page 171
... strike † . From his flack hand the garland , wreath'd for Eve , Down dropt , and all the faded rofes fhed ; Speechless he food , and pale ‡ ! And SPENCER , the master of MILTON , fo much abounds in portraits peculiarly mark- ed , and ...
... strike † . From his flack hand the garland , wreath'd for Eve , Down dropt , and all the faded rofes fhed ; Speechless he food , and pale ‡ ! And SPENCER , the master of MILTON , fo much abounds in portraits peculiarly mark- ed , and ...
Page 178
... strike At day - break , looking out of the window to see the fun rife , I was furprized with the vifion of the colonnade that fronted me . It seemed one of thofe edi- fices in Fairy Tales , that are raised by genii in a night's time ...
... strike At day - break , looking out of the window to see the fun rife , I was furprized with the vifion of the colonnade that fronted me . It seemed one of thofe edi- fices in Fairy Tales , that are raised by genii in a night's time ...
Page 216
... striking parts of their works . He was fo neglectful of his writ- ings , that his children tore his manuscripts and made paper - kites of them . Few letters in the English language are fo interesting , and contain fuch marks of ...
... striking parts of their works . He was fo neglectful of his writ- ings , that his children tore his manuscripts and made paper - kites of them . Few letters in the English language are fo interesting , and contain fuch marks of ...
Page 234
... striking marks of accurate and extenfive erudition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his edition of the Paradise Loft , and by his strange and abfurd hypothesis of the faults which Milton's ...
... striking marks of accurate and extenfive erudition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his edition of the Paradise Loft , and by his strange and abfurd hypothesis of the faults which Milton's ...
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