An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 27
... style , but full of strange opinions . He declares , that none of the classic poets had the talent of expressing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the ...
... style , but full of strange opinions . He declares , that none of the classic poets had the talent of expressing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than the ...
Pagina 72
... style , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practised the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precifely suited each occafion . 66 14. Without this just ...
... style , which abounds in various figures , and is much elevated . POPE has practised the great fecret of Virgil's art , which was to discover the very fingle epithet that precifely suited each occafion . 66 14. Without this just ...
Pagina 85
... style , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , says Quintilian , quæ nimium corri- pientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : satiusque est aliquid narrationi fupereffe , quam deesse . Nam cum fupervacua cum tædio dicuntur ...
... style , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , says Quintilian , quæ nimium corri- pientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : satiusque est aliquid narrationi fupereffe , quam deesse . Nam cum fupervacua cum tædio dicuntur ...
Pagina 100
... style is too short , abrupt , and epigram- matic ; he tells us himself , he was fond of Lucius Florus ; and he believed too creduloufly , and laid too great a stress upon , the relations of voyage - writers and travellers ; as in- deed ...
... style is too short , abrupt , and epigram- matic ; he tells us himself , he was fond of Lucius Florus ; and he believed too creduloufly , and laid too great a stress upon , the relations of voyage - writers and travellers ; as in- deed ...
Pagina 140
... describe them in a purer style . Both these stories would have shone under the hands of POPE . THIS doctrine of our author may be farther illustrated by the following paffage of of Bacon . " It is no less worthy to 140 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... describe them in a purer style . Both these stories would have shone under the hands of POPE . THIS doctrine of our author may be farther illustrated by the following paffage of of Bacon . " It is no less worthy to 140 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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