Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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... used to fay that he could not remember the time when he began to make verses . In the ftyle of fiction it might have been faid of him as of Pindar , that when he lay A 3 of POPE . 5 which he perfuaded his fchool-fellows ...
... used to fay that he could not remember the time when he began to make verses . In the ftyle of fiction it might have been faid of him as of Pindar , that when he lay A 3 of POPE . 5 which he perfuaded his fchool-fellows ...
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... verses in his praife , which he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself , and they agreed for a while to flatter one another . It is pleasant to remark how foon Pope learned the cant of an author , and began to treat criticks with ...
... verses in his praife , which he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself , and they agreed for a while to flatter one another . It is pleasant to remark how foon Pope learned the cant of an author , and began to treat criticks with ...
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... verses are in this poem ; and the profe , though it was never fent , is printed among his Letters , but to a cool reader of the prefent time exhibits nothing but tedious malignity . His laft Satires , of the general kind , were two ...
... verses are in this poem ; and the profe , though it was never fent , is printed among his Letters , but to a cool reader of the prefent time exhibits nothing but tedious malignity . His laft Satires , of the general kind , were two ...
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... verses of the fame measure , and in an age nearer to Homer's time by eighteen hundred years ; yet he found , even then , the state of the world fo much altered , and the demand for elegance fo much increased , that mere nature would be ...
... verses of the fame measure , and in an age nearer to Homer's time by eighteen hundred years ; yet he found , even then , the state of the world fo much altered , and the demand for elegance fo much increased , that mere nature would be ...
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... verses , enchain philofophy , fufpend criticism , and opprefs judgement by overpowering pleasure . This is true of many paragraphs ; yet if I had undertaken to exemplify Pope's felicity of compofition before a rigid critick , I should ...
... verses , enchain philofophy , fufpend criticism , and opprefs judgement by overpowering pleasure . This is true of many paragraphs ; yet if I had undertaken to exemplify Pope's felicity of compofition before a rigid critick , I should ...
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