An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 23
... expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily capti- vated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of numbers ; the ...
... expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily capti- vated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of numbers ; the ...
Pagina 27
... expressing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Jussit et extendi campos , of the latin poet ; that he excels in the propriety of his fimiles and ...
... expressing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the Jussit et extendi campos , of the latin poet ; that he excels in the propriety of his fimiles and ...
Pagina 48
... expressions ; yet , as the ingenious historian * observes , " their freedom no more resembles the licence of Rochester , than the nakedness of an Indian does that of a common prostitute . " POPE in this imitation has discovered a fund ...
... expressions ; yet , as the ingenious historian * observes , " their freedom no more resembles the licence of Rochester , than the nakedness of an Indian does that of a common prostitute . " POPE in this imitation has discovered a fund ...
Pagina 54
... expression of POPE , as not being the purest English , Swift answered with his usual roughness- " I could never get the block- head to study his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , says the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... expression of POPE , as not being the purest English , Swift answered with his usual roughness- " I could never get the block- head to study his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , says the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Pagina 67
... expression seeming to exclude a future existence , as , to speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great injury to the harmony of the line , but also , to the reasoning of the context ...
... expression seeming to exclude a future existence , as , to speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , it was altered to from home , not only with great injury to the harmony of the line , but also , to the reasoning of the context ...
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