An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 |
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Pagina 10
... once a twelvemonth . " It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the ...
... once a twelvemonth . " It is a circumftance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the ...
Pagina 18
... once and cry'd . There is an incomparable wildness in the vifion of Theodore and Honoria * , that represents the furious spectre of " the horseman ghost that came thundering for his prey , " and of the gaunt mastiffs that tore the fides ...
... once and cry'd . There is an incomparable wildness in the vifion of Theodore and Honoria * , that represents the furious spectre of " the horseman ghost that came thundering for his prey , " and of the gaunt mastiffs that tore the fides ...
Pagina 19
... once the wind was laid — the whisp'ring found Was dumb - a rifing earthquake rock'd the ground : With deeper brown the grove was overspread , And his ears tingled , and his colour fled . The fenfations of a man upon the approach of fome ...
... once the wind was laid — the whisp'ring found Was dumb - a rifing earthquake rock'd the ground : With deeper brown the grove was overspread , And his ears tingled , and his colour fled . The fenfations of a man upon the approach of fome ...
Pagina 38
... once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have exhibited a general view of their poefie , throughout its ...
... once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar , an idyllium of Theocritus , & c . fo that I would have exhibited a general view of their poefie , throughout its ...
Pagina 40
... once fo gallant and fo lofty ? The English verfification was much smoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his num- bers from Fairfax's Taffo , who well- vowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious ...
... once fo gallant and fo lofty ? The English verfification was much smoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his num- bers from Fairfax's Taffo , who well- vowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious ...
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Adamo Addiſon addreffed againſt alfo almoſt alſo beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe cenfured character circumftance defign Demetrius Phalereus deſcription Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant Engliſh epiftle Euripides excellent expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhew finiſhed firft firſt fome ftrong fubject fuch genius himſelf hiſtory Horace humour Iliad imitation inferted juſt laft laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè manner Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffion perfon philofopher piece pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE Pope's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe Quintilian reaſon ridicule ſaid ſay SCENA ſee ſeems ſhall ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpirit ſtate Statius ſtrokes ſtyle ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tranſlation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε