Bibliographical note: this facsimile has been made from a Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-112257 Printed in U.S.A. ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITING S OF POPE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, In Pall-Mall. Of JANUARY and MAY, The WIFE of BATH, and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID, and the IMITATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS. T HE first dawnings of polite lite rature in Italy, appeared in talewriting and fables. Boccace gave,a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition. He collected many of the common tales of his country, and delivered them in VOL. II. B the |