An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Pagina 8
... defpifed Chaucer . I am not furprized at this flrange judgment Cowley was indif putably a Genius , but his taste was perverted and narrowed by a love of witticisms . of of Cowley . " Chaucer is a perpetual foun- tain 2 8 ESSAY ON THE ...
... defpifed Chaucer . I am not furprized at this flrange judgment Cowley was indif putably a Genius , but his taste was perverted and narrowed by a love of witticisms . of of Cowley . " Chaucer is a perpetual foun- tain 2 8 ESSAY ON THE ...
Pagina 23
... taste in poetry , among the Romans . From the time of Lucretius , to that of Statius , was no more than about one hundred and forty- feven years ; and if I might venture to pro- nounce fo rigorous a fentence , I would fay , that the ...
... taste in poetry , among the Romans . From the time of Lucretius , to that of Statius , was no more than about one hundred and forty- feven years ; and if I might venture to pro- nounce fo rigorous a fentence , I would fay , that the ...
Pagina 33
... taste and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will always form an agreeable and pleafing picture ; but the pencil of the English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and ...
... taste and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will always form an agreeable and pleafing picture ; but the pencil of the English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and ...
Pagina 38
... taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to mythology and the ancient claffics . The French , as may be imagined ...
... taste . The application of the ftory of Cephalus and Procris is as ingenious as Waller's Phœbus and Daphne . Waller abounds , perhaps to excefs , in allufions to mythology and the ancient claffics . The French , as may be imagined ...
Pagina 151
... taste for the fimplicity of the best ancients * , have generally run into a frequent use of point , oppofition , and con- traft . They who begin to ftudy painting , are ftruck at firft with the pieces of the most vivid colouring ; they ...
... taste for the fimplicity of the best ancients * , have generally run into a frequent use of point , oppofition , and con- traft . They who begin to ftudy painting , are ftruck at firft with the pieces of the most vivid colouring ; they ...
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