An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fome ftrange and fupernatural danger , can scarcely be reprefented more feelingly . All nature is thus faid to fympathize at the second appearance of The felon on his fable fteed Arm'd with his naked sword that urg'd his dogs to speed ...
... fome ftrange and fupernatural danger , can scarcely be reprefented more feelingly . All nature is thus faid to fympathize at the second appearance of The felon on his fable fteed Arm'd with his naked sword that urg'd his dogs to speed ...
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... fome particular ages and nations , than in others , few have been fatisfactory and adequate . What folid reafon can we give why the Romans , who so happily imitated the Greeks in many refpects , and breathed a truly tragic fpirit ...
... fome particular ages and nations , than in others , few have been fatisfactory and adequate . What folid reafon can we give why the Romans , who so happily imitated the Greeks in many refpects , and breathed a truly tragic fpirit ...
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... fome lafting curfe entail , Which o'er their children's children fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on ...
... fome lafting curfe entail , Which o'er their children's children fhall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore . OVID is also another writer of a bad taste , on ...
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... fome new circumftance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be com- pared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies fo gradually , and the light revives fo ...
... fome new circumftance , without any violation of the unity of the story ; the texture , says he , is so artful that it may be com- pared to the work of his own Arachne , where the shade dies fo gradually , and the light revives fo ...
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... fome of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anec- dote must be added , which I lately received from one of his ...
... fome of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anec- dote must be added , which I lately received from one of his ...
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