The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeG. Routledge and sons, 1870 - 485 Seiten |
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... ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we ; and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more com- plete pieces . They constantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that ...
... ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we ; and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more com- plete pieces . They constantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that ...
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... ancient sort of poetry was probably pas- toral . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient shepherds admitting and inviting some diversion , none was so proper to that solitary and sedentary life as singing ; and that ...
... ancient sort of poetry was probably pas- toral . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient shepherds admitting and inviting some diversion , none was so proper to that solitary and sedentary life as singing ; and that ...
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... ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso and our Spenser . Tasso in his Aminta has as far excelled all the pastoral writers , as in his Gierusa- lemme he has outdone the epic poets , of his ...
... ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso and our Spenser . Tasso in his Aminta has as far excelled all the pastoral writers , as in his Gierusa- lemme he has outdone the epic poets , of his ...
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... ancients . But what he has mixed of his own with theirs is no way inferior to what he has taken from them . It is not flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written nothing so good at his age : His pre- face is very judicious and ...
... ancients . But what he has mixed of his own with theirs is no way inferior to what he has taken from them . It is not flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written nothing so good at his age : His pre- face is very judicious and ...
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... ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend , Swift fly the years , and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light ...
... ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend , Swift fly the years , and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light ...
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