An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were fuffered ever to look Richard Berenger , Efq . C 3 into into Statius * , Lucan , Claudian , or Seneca AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 21.
... , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were fuffered ever to look Richard Berenger , Efq . C 3 into into Statius * , Lucan , Claudian , or Seneca AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 21.
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... Writers of this stamp are always on the ftretch . They difdain the natural . They are perpetually grasping at the vaft , the wonderful , and the terrible . σε Καν έκαςον αυτών προς αυχας ανασκοπης , εκ το φοβερό κατ ' ολίγον ὑπονοσει ...
... Writers of this stamp are always on the ftretch . They difdain the natural . They are perpetually grasping at the vaft , the wonderful , and the terrible . σε Καν έκαςον αυτών προς αυχας ανασκοπης , εκ το φοβερό κατ ' ολίγον ὑπονοσει ...
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... writers , yet has no Sophocles , Euripides , or Menander . And France , without having formed a fin- gle Epopëa , has carried dramatic poetry to so high a pitch of perfection in Corneille , Racine , and Moliere . For a confirmation of ...
... writers , yet has no Sophocles , Euripides , or Menander . And France , without having formed a fin- gle Epopëa , has carried dramatic poetry to so high a pitch of perfection in Corneille , Racine , and Moliere . For a confirmation of ...
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... writer of a bad taste , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the sto- ries of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to be fo ...
... writer of a bad taste , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the sto- ries of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to be fo ...
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... writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagreeable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a contraft , or rather ...
... writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and difagreeable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to think , if it were poffible , had been contrived as a contraft , or rather ...
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