An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the po- pular stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumftances have Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest ...
... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the po- pular stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumftances have Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundest ...
Pagina 4
... most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of ...
... most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of ...
Pagina 8
... most mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice ...
... most mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice ...
Pagina 19
... on Dry- den . It must be owned , that his ode on the power of mufic , which is the chief ornament of this volume , is the most un- C 2 rivalled rivalled of his compofitions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 19.
... on Dry- den . It must be owned , that his ode on the power of mufic , which is the chief ornament of this volume , is the most un- C 2 rivalled rivalled of his compofitions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 19.
Pagina 26
... the unnatural cruelty of his fons , yet his refentment is more temperate , See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most en- chanting tragedy . chufe chuse rather to account for Ovid's falling into fo blameable 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... the unnatural cruelty of his fons , yet his refentment is more temperate , See verfe 433 down to verfe 472 , of the fame most en- chanting tragedy . chufe chuse rather to account for Ovid's falling into fo blameable 26 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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