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Pagina 9
... reader would not find it . For 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 so many fucceffive years , yet at present a in AND ...
... reader would not find it . For 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 so many fucceffive years , yet at present a in AND ...
Pagina 12
... reader muft not think any obfervations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat- • The falling off of his hair , faid a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to be feen the more . A perfon who tranflated ...
... reader muft not think any obfervations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat- • The falling off of his hair , faid a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to be feen the more . A perfon who tranflated ...
Pagina 14
... reader , where he fays , The rage of Jealousy then fir'd his foul , And his face kindled like a burning coal : * Fairy Queen , Book I. Canto 9. Stanza 36 . Now Now cold despair succeeding in her ftead , To livid 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... reader , where he fays , The rage of Jealousy then fir'd his foul , And his face kindled like a burning coal : * Fairy Queen , Book I. Canto 9. Stanza 36 . Now Now cold despair succeeding in her ftead , To livid 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Pagina 16
... reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boc- cace , and it might be worth examining how much Dryden has added purely from his own ftock . combat , combat , which is ...
... reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boc- cace , and it might be worth examining how much Dryden has added purely from his own ftock . combat , combat , which is ...
Pagina 33
... readers . " This effect , says he , [ History of England , pag . 738. ] of which every one is conscious , is usually ... reader of taste and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will ...
... readers . " This effect , says he , [ History of England , pag . 738. ] of which every one is conscious , is usually ... reader of taste and judgment . Homer copied true natural man- ners , which , however rough and uncultivated , will ...
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