An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 133
... opposition to the most common opinions . POPE has borrowed many remarks from Charron , of which fenfible writer Bolingbroke was particularly fond . 6. A godless K 3 6. A godless regent tremble at a ftar * . AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 133.
... opposition to the most common opinions . POPE has borrowed many remarks from Charron , of which fenfible writer Bolingbroke was particularly fond . 6. A godless K 3 6. A godless regent tremble at a ftar * . AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 133.
Page 135
... Opinions ? they still take a wider range : Find if you can in what you cannot change . Manners with fortunes , humours turn with climes , Tenets with books , and principles with times + . We find here in the compafs of eight lines , an ...
... Opinions ? they still take a wider range : Find if you can in what you cannot change . Manners with fortunes , humours turn with climes , Tenets with books , and principles with times + . We find here in the compafs of eight lines , an ...
Page 155
... opinion on this subject , and in his own words , as delivered to Mr , Spence . " I have nothing to say for rhyme * ; but that I doubt if a poem can fupport itself without it in our language , unless it be stiffned with such strange ...
... opinion on this subject , and in his own words , as delivered to Mr , Spence . " I have nothing to say for rhyme * ; but that I doubt if a poem can fupport itself without it in our language , unless it be stiffned with such strange ...
Page 181
... opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works , was not planned on the mo- del of Mr. Pope's , at least in the opening and retiring " shades of Venus's Vale . " It ought to be observed , that many years before this epiftle was written ...
... opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works , was not planned on the mo- del of Mr. Pope's , at least in the opening and retiring " shades of Venus's Vale . " It ought to be observed , that many years before this epiftle was written ...
Page 204
... rofe up all together with earnestness , exclaiming - Let us fet , out with him imme- diately . where where he has introduced his fanciful and whimsical opinions about 204 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS "THERE are in English Three dialogues, ...
... rofe up all together with earnestness , exclaiming - Let us fet , out with him imme- diately . where where he has introduced his fanciful and whimsical opinions about 204 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS "THERE are in English Three dialogues, ...
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