An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Joseph Warton. and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in all countries , refolving to be original and new , and to avoid the im- putation of copying , became diftorted and unnatural : by endeavouring to open an unbeaten path ...
Joseph Warton. and writing . Succeeding authors , as it happens in all countries , refolving to be original and new , and to avoid the im- putation of copying , became diftorted and unnatural : by endeavouring to open an unbeaten path ...
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... writing , in the words of a fenfible critic * ; who after he * Francifci Vavafforis de Epigrammate Liber . Parifiis ... written in a flowing and lively style , but full of ftrange opinions . He declares , that none of the claffic poets ...
... writing , in the words of a fenfible critic * ; who after he * Francifci Vavafforis de Epigrammate Liber . Parifiis ... written in a flowing and lively style , but full of ftrange opinions . He declares , that none of the claffic poets ...
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... written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed ...
... written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almost all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it con- fiderable enough to be read . " ployed ployed ...
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... writing the Anti - Achitophel by Clifford , and others the best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . + Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The penfive Cowley's moral lay .—— Vol . VI . p . 37 . His ...
... writing the Anti - Achitophel by Clifford , and others the best wits of that time , who com- bined against Dryden . + Another line likewife of POPE exactly characterises him . The penfive Cowley's moral lay .—— Vol . VI . p . 37 . His ...
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... written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum operum cuftos fidelis , Quæftorque gazæ ...
... written in the true spirit of the ancient Lyrics , and an excellent imitation of Pindar . One allufion to Euripides of whom Milton is known to have been fo fond , I cannot omit . Æternorum operum cuftos fidelis , Quæftorque gazæ ...
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