An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 141
... admiration . The poet fuddenly stops the vein of ridicule with which he was flowing , and addreffes his friend in a most delicate compliment , concealed under the appearance of fatire . And you ! brave Cobham , to the latest breath ...
... admiration . The poet fuddenly stops the vein of ridicule with which he was flowing , and addreffes his friend in a most delicate compliment , concealed under the appearance of fatire . And you ! brave Cobham , to the latest breath ...
Page 152
... admiration . ' Tis then we relish Terence , Cæfar , and Xenophon . 16. Kept drofs for Ducheffes , the world shall know it , To you gave fenfe , good - humour , and a poet * . The world fhall know it - is an unmeaning expreffion , and a ...
... admiration . ' Tis then we relish Terence , Cæfar , and Xenophon . 16. Kept drofs for Ducheffes , the world shall know it , To you gave fenfe , good - humour , and a poet * . The world fhall know it - is an unmeaning expreffion , and a ...
Page 176
... admirable talent for telling a ftory . In great companies he avoided speak- ing much . And in his examination before the House of Lords , in ATTERBURY'S trial , he faultered fo much as to be hardly intelligible . - 23. You show us ...
... admirable talent for telling a ftory . In great companies he avoided speak- ing much . And in his examination before the House of Lords , in ATTERBURY'S trial , he faultered fo much as to be hardly intelligible . - 23. You show us ...
Page 233
... admirable Boyle's Lec- tures , Remarks on COLLINS , Emendations of MENANDER and CALLIMACHUS , and Tully's Tufcul . Difp . whofe edition of HORACE , and above all , Differtation on the Epiftles of PHALARIS , ( in which he • Ver . 163 ...
... admirable Boyle's Lec- tures , Remarks on COLLINS , Emendations of MENANDER and CALLIMACHUS , and Tully's Tufcul . Difp . whofe edition of HORACE , and above all , Differtation on the Epiftles of PHALARIS , ( in which he • Ver . 163 ...
Page 238
... Homer , he did it , as his friend Dr. Sykes informed me , with a vehement and enthufiaftic admiration , very unufual to him on other fubjects . + Ver . 169 . 17. Did 17. Did fome more fober critic come abroad ; If 238 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... Homer , he did it , as his friend Dr. Sykes informed me , with a vehement and enthufiaftic admiration , very unufual to him on other fubjects . + Ver . 169 . 17. Did 17. Did fome more fober critic come abroad ; If 238 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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