An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 2
... stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have been ever invented . Facts and events have been indeed. * Machiavel , who poffefsed the liveliest wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two ...
... stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have been ever invented . Facts and events have been indeed. * Machiavel , who poffefsed the liveliest wit with the pro- foundest reflection , wrote also two ...
Pagina 3
... stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at such a critical season by their favourite knights . Some faint tra- ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the ...
... stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at such a critical season by their favourite knights . Some faint tra- ditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the ...
Pagina 4
... story of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into disgrace by an unfuitable match , is sup- ported in a lively manner . POPE has en- deavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
... story of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into disgrace by an unfuitable match , is sup- ported in a lively manner . POPE has en- deavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
Pagina 6
... story ; the finest touches of which , it is to be feared , have undergone the usual and unavoidable fate of fatirical writings , that is , not to be tafted or un- derstood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they ...
... story ; the finest touches of which , it is to be feared , have undergone the usual and unavoidable fate of fatirical writings , that is , not to be tafted or un- derstood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they ...
Pagina 7
... story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Creffida , or the complaint of the black knight ; or , above all , on Cambuscan and Canace . From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous ...
... story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Creffida , or the complaint of the black knight ; or , above all , on Cambuscan and Canace . From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous ...
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