An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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Page 99
... wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the favage faves ; Nay , feafts the animal he dooms his feast And till he ends the being makes it bleft . H 2 ...
... wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the favage faves ; Nay , feafts the animal he dooms his feast And till he ends the being makes it bleft . H 2 ...
Page 134
... wrote a set of odes against him , of won- derful energy and keennefs , and almost in the spirit of Alceus ; if it be not a kind of profanation to fpeak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- fpotic government ...
... wrote a set of odes against him , of won- derful energy and keennefs , and almost in the spirit of Alceus ; if it be not a kind of profanation to fpeak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- fpotic government ...
Page 148
... wrote to Mr. POPE , urging hin . to write something on the fide of Revelation , in order to take off the impreffions of thofe doctrines which the Essay on Man were fuppofed to convey . He alluded to this in the conclufion of his firit ...
... wrote to Mr. POPE , urging hin . to write something on the fide of Revelation , in order to take off the impreffions of thofe doctrines which the Essay on Man were fuppofed to convey . He alluded to this in the conclufion of his firit ...
Page 165
... wrote before general and ab- ftract terms were invented . Hence his Mufe ( like his own Helen standing on the walls of Troy ) points out every person , and thing , accurately and forcibly . All the views * Ver . 399 . M 3 and and ...
... wrote before general and ab- ftract terms were invented . Hence his Mufe ( like his own Helen standing on the walls of Troy ) points out every person , and thing , accurately and forcibly . All the views * Ver . 399 . M 3 and and ...
Page 192
... , on the publication of Winter , on which he wrote a complimentary copy of verfes . See a letter of Thomfon's to Hill , dated Goodman's Coffee - houfe , 1726 . of of which the reception you defcribe it to have given 192 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... , on the publication of Winter , on which he wrote a complimentary copy of verfes . See a letter of Thomfon's to Hill , dated Goodman's Coffee - houfe , 1726 . of of which the reception you defcribe it to have given 192 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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