An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... poets had the talent of expreffing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Juffit et extendi campos , of the latin poet ; that he excels in the propriety ...
... poets had the talent of expreffing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Juffit et extendi campos , of the latin poet ; that he excels in the propriety ...
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... Poets , 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 ... poem AL- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 29 WE are now advanced, through many ...
... Poets , 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 ... poem AL- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 29 WE are now advanced, through many ...
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Joseph Warton. fay how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- CANDER , when about twelve . The scene of it lay at Rhodes , and some of the neigh- bouring iflands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a description of the court of Neptune ...
Joseph Warton. fay how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- CANDER , when about twelve . The scene of it lay at Rhodes , and some of the neigh- bouring iflands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a description of the court of Neptune ...
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... poem the due fimplicity , coherence and unity of a legiti mate Epopea , the reader may find in Mr. Hurd's enter- taining letter to Mr. Mafon , on the Marks of imitation , pag . 19 , and in Observations on the Faery Queen , pag . 2 , 3 ...
... poem the due fimplicity , coherence and unity of a legiti mate Epopea , the reader may find in Mr. Hurd's enter- taining letter to Mr. Mafon , on the Marks of imitation , pag . 19 , and in Observations on the Faery Queen , pag . 2 , 3 ...
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... poets ; I would have tranflated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have exhibited a general view of their poefie , throughout its different ages . " That That eagle's fate and mine are ...
... poets ; I would have tranflated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have exhibited a general view of their poefie , throughout its different ages . " That That eagle's fate and mine are ...
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