An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 12
... elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmo- nious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them ...
... elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmo- nious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them ...
Pagina 31
... elegant taste , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compositions . To imitate Spenser on a subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true representation of him , for he seems to be more awake and alive to ...
... elegant taste , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compositions . To imitate Spenser on a subject that does not partake of the pathos , is not giving a true representation of him , for he seems to be more awake and alive to ...
Pagina 38
... elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own defign , for he designed with dexterity and taste . The application of the story of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to ...
... elegance , especially in the verses on a fan of his own defign , for he designed with dexterity and taste . The application of the story of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to ...
Pagina 50
... elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the severity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that these two qua- lities are by no means incompatible . The greatest wits , says ...
... elegant writer , and amiable man , equally noted for the severity of his fatire , and the sweetness of his manners , and who gave the fairest proof that these two qua- lities are by no means incompatible . The greatest wits , says ...
Pagina 58
... elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from some beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic ...
... elegant Latin poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philosophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from some beautiful fragments , we might have added Gray's didactic ...
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