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Pagina 9
... this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have had in fo many fucceffive years , yet at present a in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 9.
... this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impreffions which his works have had in fo many fucceffive years , yet at present a in AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 9.
Pagina 12
... must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any obfervations on the character of Dryden , the conftant pat- * The falling off of his hair , said a man of wit , had no other confequence ...
... must beg leave to select a few paffages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any obfervations on the character of Dryden , the conftant pat- * The falling off of his hair , said a man of wit , had no other confequence ...
Pagina 14
... must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grass A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his wound ...
... must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grass A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his wound ...
Pagina 17
... must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to attend to the anachronism on fo ftriking an occafion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and pro- priety is forgot . THE tale of Sigifmonda and ...
... must be the critic , who could have leifure dully and foberly to attend to the anachronism on fo ftriking an occafion . The mind is whirled away by a torrent of rapid imagery , and pro- priety is forgot . THE tale of Sigifmonda and ...
Pagina 19
... 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.
... 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.
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