An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Band 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Joseph Warton. lively a manner of both , as to make the reader present at every action intended . Of this fort alfo is the third ode of the third book , in which Juno is introduced , expreffing her- felf with all that fury and ...
Joseph Warton. lively a manner of both , as to make the reader present at every action intended . Of this fort alfo is the third ode of the third book , in which Juno is introduced , expreffing her- felf with all that fury and ...
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... lively , new , and well imagined . The reader feels a pleasure in having his eye carried through a length of building , almost to an immenfity . Extenfion is certainly a cause of the fublime . In this view the following paf- fage of ...
... lively , new , and well imagined . The reader feels a pleasure in having his eye carried through a length of building , almost to an immenfity . Extenfion is certainly a cause of the fublime . In this view the following paf- fage of ...
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... lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize the ftatelinefs of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative but after all his pains , this measure is not a- dapted to such subjects , fo well as the lines of four ...
... lively manner . POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize the ftatelinefs of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative but after all his pains , this measure is not a- dapted to such subjects , fo well as the lines of four ...
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... lively , as to make us fpectators of that inte- refting and magnificent tournament . Even the abfurdity of feigning ancient heroes , fuch as Thefeus and Lycurgus , prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and ...
... lively , as to make us fpectators of that inte- refting and magnificent tournament . Even the abfurdity of feigning ancient heroes , fuch as Thefeus and Lycurgus , prefent at the lifts and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and ...
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... lively style , but full of strange opinions . He declares , that none of the claffic poets had the talent of expreffing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than ...
... lively style , but full of strange opinions . He declares , that none of the claffic poets had the talent of expreffing himself with more force and perfpicuity than Ovid ; that the Fiat of the Hebrew law - giver is not more fublime than ...
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Adamo Addiſon addreffed Æneid againſt alfo almoſt alſo beautiful becauſe beſt Boccacio Boileau Bolingbroke character Chaucer circumftance defign deſcription Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant Engliſh epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fentiments fhall fhew finiſhed firft firſt fome fpeaks fpecies fpirit ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch genius himſelf hiſtory Homer Horace Iliad images imitation juſt laft laſt lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè manner Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffion perfon Petrarch philofopher piece Pindar pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE POPE's prefent publiſhed Quintilian racter reader reaſon repreſented rife ſay SCENA ſeems ſhall ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſtate Statius ſtyle ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thofe thoſe tranflation uſe verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε και
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Seite 128 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 245 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Seite 289 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 142 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 165 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Seite 319 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Seite 429 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
Seite 290 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Seite 157 - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Seite 176 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...