An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 175
... pleasing effect that the use of common and familiar words and objects , judiciously managed , produce in poetry . Such as are here the words , causeway , feats , Spire , market - place , alms - bouse , apprentic'd . A fastidious deli ...
... pleasing effect that the use of common and familiar words and objects , judiciously managed , produce in poetry . Such as are here the words , causeway , feats , Spire , market - place , alms - bouse , apprentic'd . A fastidious deli ...
Page 181
... pleasing ingredients of his little perspective . I do not know whether the difpofition of the garden at Roufham , laid out for General Dormer , and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works , was not planned on the mo- del of ...
... pleasing ingredients of his little perspective . I do not know whether the difpofition of the garden at Roufham , laid out for General Dormer , and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works , was not planned on the mo- del of ...
Page 224
... pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib or fophiftry , in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again ; Thron'd in the center of his thin designs , Proud of a vast extent of flimfy lines * . THE metaphor is most happily carried on ...
... pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib or fophiftry , in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again ; Thron'd in the center of his thin designs , Proud of a vast extent of flimfy lines * . THE metaphor is most happily carried on ...
Page 240
... pleasing tra- gedy of the Distrest Mother § . * Ver . 180 . + The fecret grounds of Philips's malignity to Pope , are faid to be the ridicule and laughter he met with from all the Hanover Club , of which he was fecretary , for mistaking ...
... pleasing tra- gedy of the Distrest Mother § . * Ver . 180 . + The fecret grounds of Philips's malignity to Pope , are faid to be the ridicule and laughter he met with from all the Hanover Club , of which he was fecretary , for mistaking ...
Page 300
... pleasing va- * We are informed by Mr. Stuart , in his Athens , that the honey of Hymettus , even to this time , continues to be in vogue , and that the feraglio of the Grand Seignor is ferved with a quantity of it yearly . + Ver . 9 ...
... pleasing va- * We are informed by Mr. Stuart , in his Athens , that the honey of Hymettus , even to this time , continues to be in vogue , and that the feraglio of the Grand Seignor is ferved with a quantity of it yearly . + Ver . 9 ...
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