An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Band 1J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1772 - 344 Seiten |
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... POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but what traces have they left of PURE POETRY ? It is remark- able , that Dryden fays of Donne ; He was the greatest wit , tho ' not the great- of this nation ...
... POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense : but what traces have they left of PURE POETRY ? It is remark- able , that Dryden fays of Donne ; He was the greatest wit , tho ' not the great- of this nation ...
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... POET ; that the 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 ...
... POET ; that the 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 ...
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... POET , MERELY on their ac- count . NON SATIS EST PURIS VERSUM PERSCRIBERE VERBIS . It is amazing this matter should ever have been mistaken , when Horace has taken particular and repeated pains , to fettle and adjust the opinion in ...
... POET , MERELY on their ac- count . NON SATIS EST PURIS VERSUM PERSCRIBERE VERBIS . It is amazing this matter should ever have been mistaken , when Horace has taken particular and repeated pains , to fettle and adjust the opinion in ...
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... poets may , I think , be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the firft clafs , I would place , our only three fublime and pa- thetic poets ; SPENSER , SHAKESPEARE , MILTON . In the fecond class should be ranked , such as ...
... poets may , I think , be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the firft clafs , I would place , our only three fublime and pa- thetic poets ; SPENSER , SHAKESPEARE , MILTON . In the fecond class should be ranked , such as ...
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... poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or uninftructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic , in the ...
... poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or uninftructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic , in the ...
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