An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 51
... , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo . " . -In POPE's imitation of the fixth epiftle of Horace , there were two remarkable lines , E 2 the objects as they really exist in life , like Ha- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 51.
... , and few perhaps could write fo well if they were not fo . " . -In POPE's imitation of the fixth epiftle of Horace , there were two remarkable lines , E 2 the objects as they really exist in life , like Ha- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 51.
Page 60
... remarkable paffage in one of his letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and agreeably in that science , from any one head . I ...
... remarkable paffage in one of his letters . " I confefs I did never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many new and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageously and agreeably in that science , from any one head . I ...
Page 66
... remarkable words . " I own it flatters me to fee that POPE has fallen upon the very fame fentiment which I had entertained many years ago . " " Vous vous étonnez que Dieu ait fait l'homme fi borné , fi ignorant , fi peu heureux . Que ne ...
... remarkable words . " I own it flatters me to fee that POPE has fallen upon the very fame fentiment which I had entertained many years ago . " " Vous vous étonnez que Dieu ait fait l'homme fi borné , fi ignorant , fi peu heureux . Que ne ...
Page 99
... remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome ex- tracts from it , when he first wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That life his learned hunger craves , very He faves from famine , from the savage faves ; Nay ...
... remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome ex- tracts from it , when he first wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That life his learned hunger craves , very He faves from famine , from the savage faves ; Nay ...
Page 120
... remarkable * His manner of reasoning and philofophifing has been fo happily caught in a piece entitled A Windication of Natural Society ; that many , even acute readers , mistook it for a genuine difcourfe of the author whom it was ...
... remarkable * His manner of reasoning and philofophifing has been fo happily caught in a piece entitled A Windication of Natural Society ; that many , even acute readers , mistook it for a genuine difcourfe of the author whom it was ...
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Adamo Addifon addreffed Æneid againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Boileau Bolingbroke cenfure character circumftance defcription defign Demetrius Phalereus Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant Engliſh epiftle Euripides excellent expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiment fhall fhewed finiſhed firft firſt fome fpirit ftill ftory ftriking ftyle fubject fuch genius hiftory himſelf Horace Houſe humour Iliad imitation inferted interefting juft laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry Polybius POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed Quintilian reaſon reprefented rife ſay SCENA ſhall ſhould Sophocles ſpeak ſtate Statius ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tranflation uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε και