An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 133
... oppofition to the most common opinions . POPE has borrowed many remarks from Charron , of which sensible writer Bolingbroke was particularly fond . 6. A godless K3 6. A godless regent tremble at a star * . AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 133.
... oppofition to the most common opinions . POPE has borrowed many remarks from Charron , of which sensible writer Bolingbroke was particularly fond . 6. A godless K3 6. A godless regent tremble at a star * . AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 133.
Page 135
... Opinions ? they ftill 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 t . We find here in the compafs of eight lines , an ...
... Opinions ? they ftill 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 t . We find here in the compafs of eight lines , an ...
Page 155
... opinion on this fubject , and in his own words , as delivered to Mr. Spence . " I have nothing to fay for rhyme * ; but that I doubt if a poem can fupport itself without it in our language , unless it be ftiffned with fuch strange words ...
... opinion on this fubject , and in his own words , as delivered to Mr. Spence . " I have nothing to fay for rhyme * ; but that I doubt if a poem can fupport itself without it in our language , unless it be ftiffned with fuch strange words ...
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 " fhades of Venus's Vale . ” It ought to be obferved , 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 " fhades of Venus's Vale . ” It ought to be obferved , 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 5 204 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 5 204 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS "THERE are in English Three dialogues, ...
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