Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 152
... subject of converfation ; fome read it as contem- porary history , and fome perhaps as a model of epiftolary language ; but those who read it did not talk of it . Not much therefore was added by it to fame or envy ; nor do I remember ...
... subject of converfation ; fome read it as contem- porary history , and fome perhaps as a model of epiftolary language ; but those who read it did not talk of it . Not much therefore was added by it to fame or envy ; nor do I remember ...
الصفحة 208
... much lofs to mankind ; for his hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to a ridiculous fiction , efta- blished a colony in Britain . The subject there- 7 therefore was of the fabulous age ; the actors were 208 POPE .
... much lofs to mankind ; for his hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to a ridiculous fiction , efta- blished a colony in Britain . The subject there- 7 therefore was of the fabulous age ; the actors were 208 POPE .
الصفحة 347
... subject : behind them , and who is forced , like am unfkilful painter , to make his purpose known by adventitious help ? This epitaph is wholly without eleva- vation , and contains nothing ftriking or particular ; but the poet is not to ...
... subject : behind them , and who is forced , like am unfkilful painter , to make his purpose known by adventitious help ? This epitaph is wholly without eleva- vation , and contains nothing ftriking or particular ; but the poet is not to ...
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