An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 96
... wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly fatis- fied + . " 34. See matter next , with various life endu'd , Prefs to one centre ftill , the gen'ral good . * Maxim 36 . Sat. 2. 85 . See See dying vegetables life ...
... wrote any thing in my life , with which I have been thoroughly fatis- fied + . " 34. See matter next , with various life endu'd , Prefs to one centre ftill , the gen'ral good . * Maxim 36 . Sat. 2. 85 . See See dying vegetables life ...
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 savage faves ; Nay , feafts the animal he dooms his feast , And till he ends the being makes it blest , H ...
... wrote his fa- mous article of the Paulicians , in his * That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the savage faves ; Nay , feafts the animal he dooms his feast , And till he ends the being makes it blest , H ...
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 speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- Spotic 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 speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- Spotic government ...
Page 148
... wrote to Mr. POPE , urging him to write fomething on the fide of Revelation , in order to take off the impressions of those doctrines which the Effay on Man were supposed to convey . He alluded to this in the conclufion of his firft ...
... wrote to Mr. POPE , urging him to write fomething on the fide of Revelation , in order to take off the impressions of those doctrines which the Effay on Man were supposed to convey . He alluded to this in the conclufion of his firft ...
Page 165
... wrote before general and ab- ftract terms were invented . Hence his Mufe ( like his own Helen ftanding 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 ftanding on the walls of Troy ) points out every person , and thing , accurately and forcibly . All the views * Ver . 399 . M 3 and and ...
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