An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 23
... verses are many expreffions , here marked with italics , which feem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily captivated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of ...
... verses are many expreffions , here marked with italics , which feem to hint obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar , who were easily captivated with a wild and inartificial tale , and with an empty magnificence of ...
Pagina 37
... freedom than his blank - verse . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , Vol . I. pag . 247 , and Vol . III . pag . 119 . † And alfo Dr. Beattie's charming Minstrel . ** D 3 POPE POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
... freedom than his blank - verse . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , Vol . I. pag . 247 , and Vol . III . pag . 119 . † And alfo Dr. Beattie's charming Minstrel . ** D 3 POPE POPE has imitated WALLER in the third place , and AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
Pagina 38
... verses on a fan of his own defign , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phoebus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to ...
... verses on a fan of his own defign , for he defigned with dexterity and taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phoebus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to ...
Pagina 52
... verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before us . In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a fubject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The ...
... verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before us . In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a fubject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The ...
Pagina 58
... verse . POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was high , and of dignity , because of its being mixed with argument which of its nature approacheth to profe ...
... verse . POPE informs us in his FIRST preface , " that he chose this epiftolary way of writing , notwithstanding his fubject was high , and of dignity , because of its being mixed with argument which of its nature approacheth to profe ...
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