An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 30
... speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond ; it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece , would ...
... speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond ; it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was to form his ideas of the turn and manner of his genius from this piece , would ...
Pagina 38
... Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a design of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have tranflated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have ...
... Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a design of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have tranflated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have ...
Pagina 67
... 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 . Ouevres de Voltaire . Tom . iv . pag . 227 . + Ver . 81 ...
... 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 . Ouevres de Voltaire . Tom . iv . pag . 227 . + Ver . 81 ...
Pagina 119
... speak of him as a being of a fuperior order , that had conde- scended to vifit this lower world ; in par- ticular , when the last comet appeared and approached near the earth , he told fome of his acquaintance , " it was fent only to ...
... speak of him as a being of a fuperior order , that had conde- scended to vifit this lower world ; in par- ticular , when the last comet appeared and approached near the earth , he told fome of his acquaintance , " it was fent only to ...
Pagina 134
... ; if it be not a kind of profanation to speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- fpotic government . * Ver . 90 . 7. Alas 7. Alas in truth the man but chang'd his mind 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... ; if it be not a kind of profanation to speak thus , of any pro- duction of a poet that writes under a de- fpotic government . * Ver . 90 . 7. Alas 7. Alas in truth the man but chang'd his mind 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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