An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Band 1J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1772 - 344 Seiten |
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... most excellent one of the art . We do not , it should feem fuffici- ently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but ...
... most excellent one of the art . We do not , it should feem fuffici- ently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but ...
Seite v
... most folid obfervations on human life , ex- preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHAR AC- TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ...
... most folid obfervations on human life , ex- preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHAR AC- TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ...
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... most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any 1 any ...
... most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any 1 any ...
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... most elevated and fublime strokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo ...
... most elevated and fublime strokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo ...
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... most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo misery and deftruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon and the ...
... most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo misery and deftruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of distress and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon and the ...
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