An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 59
Joseph Warton. cife and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has many metaphors and images , art- fully interfperfed in the drieft paffages , which stood moft in need of fuch orna- ments . Nevertheless there are too many lines , in ...
Joseph Warton. cife and figurative , forcible and elegant . He has many metaphors and images , art- fully interfperfed in the drieft paffages , which stood moft in need of fuch orna- ments . Nevertheless there are too many lines , in ...
Page 83
... elegance , in these few lines . It was a favourite fubject with our author ; and it is faid , he intended to have written four epistles on it , wherein he would have treated of the extent and limits of human reafon , of arts and ...
... elegance , in these few lines . It was a favourite fubject with our author ; and it is faid , he intended to have written four epistles on it , wherein he would have treated of the extent and limits of human reafon , of arts and ...
Page 84
... elegant observation of Tully , who fays in his Brutus , Credo , fed Athenienfium quoque plus interfuit firma tecta in domi- ciliis habere , quam Minervæ fignum ex ebore pulcherrimum : tamen ego me Phi- diam effe mallem quam vel optimum ...
... elegant observation of Tully , who fays in his Brutus , Credo , fed Athenienfium quoque plus interfuit firma tecta in domi- ciliis habere , quam Minervæ fignum ex ebore pulcherrimum : tamen ego me Phi- diam effe mallem quam vel optimum ...
Page 92
... elegant lyric poet . Who founds in difcord , beauty's reign , Converts to pleasure ev'ry pain , Subdues the hoftile forms to rest , And bids the universe be bleft . " " This is that magic divine , which by an efficacy past com ...
... elegant lyric poet . Who founds in difcord , beauty's reign , Converts to pleasure ev'ry pain , Subdues the hoftile forms to rest , And bids the universe be bleft . " " This is that magic divine , which by an efficacy past com ...
Page 124
... elegantly , but unfaithfully , tranflated into French verfe by M. Du Refnel . It was more accurately rendered into French profe by M. De Silhouete , Which tranflation has been often printed ; at Paris 1736 ; at London 1741 , in Quarto ...
... elegantly , but unfaithfully , tranflated into French verfe by M. Du Refnel . It was more accurately rendered into French profe by M. De Silhouete , Which tranflation has been often printed ; at Paris 1736 ; at London 1741 , in Quarto ...
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