An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
... fhould be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the profoundest reflection , wrote alfo two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with ...
Pagina 39
... fhould be his apology for having loved before . He begins by faying that " they who never had been ufed to the furprifing juice of the grape , render up their reafon to the first delicious cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what ...
... fhould be his apology for having loved before . He begins by faying that " they who never had been ufed to the furprifing juice of the grape , render up their reafon to the first delicious cup " this is fufficiently gallant , but what ...
Pagina 40
... fhould be written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almoft all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it confiderable enough to be read ...
... fhould be written by a plan . This method is evident in Tibullus , and Ovid's elegies , and almoft all the pieces of the ancients . A poem on a flight subject requires the greater care to make it confiderable enough to be read ...
Pagina 48
... the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain . Vol . II . pag . 434 Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 43 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... the turn of the fatire be copied , yet it is excelled . That Rochefter fhould write a fatire on * Hume's Hiftory of Great - Britain . Vol . II . pag . 434 Man , Man , I am not furprized ; it is the 43 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Pagina 49
... fhould reprefent his kind in the dark and disagreeable colours he has done , with all the malignity of a difcontented HOBBIST , is a lamentable perverfion of fine talents , and is a real injury to fociety . It is a fact worthy the ...
... fhould reprefent his kind in the dark and disagreeable colours he has done , with all the malignity of a difcontented HOBBIST , is a lamentable perverfion of fine talents , and is a real injury to fociety . It is a fact worthy the ...
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