An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 23
... expreffions , here marked with italics , which seem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar ... expreffion , fregit fubfellia verfu . One cannot forbear re- flecting on the short duration of a true taste in ...
... expreffions , here marked with italics , which seem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar ... expreffion , fregit fubfellia verfu . One cannot forbear re- flecting on the short duration of a true taste in ...
Pagina 37
... expreffions , than in catch- ing his real manner . Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that conftitute Spenfer's ...
... expreffions , than in catch- ing his real manner . Some however have been executed with happiness , and with attention to that fimplicity , that tenderness of fentiment , and thofe little touches of nature , that conftitute Spenfer's ...
Pagina 48
... expreffions ; yet , as the ingenious hiftorian obferves , " 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 difcovered a fund ...
... expreffions ; yet , as the ingenious hiftorian obferves , " 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 difcovered a fund ...
Pagina 54
... expreffion of POPE , as not being the pureft English , Swift answered with his usual roughness— “ I could never get the block- head to ftudy his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , fays the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS I ...
... expreffion of POPE , as not being the pureft English , Swift answered with his usual roughness— “ I could never get the block- head to ftudy his grammar . " Hey - day , Hey - day , gentlemen , fays the Dean , 54 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS I ...
Pagina 67
... expreffion feeming 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 reafoning of the context ...
... expreffion feeming 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 reafoning of the context ...
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