The Poetical Works: Of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Pocket Edition. ... Embellished with Superb Engravings, Том 1C. Cooke, 1795 |
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... Ancients . Spenfer's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Paftorals appeared . Mr. Walth pronounces ...
... Ancients . Spenfer's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Paftorals appeared . Mr. Walth pronounces ...
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... ancient and " modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is fo far from being a wild paradife , that it is the moft regular garden , and laid out with more fymmetry than any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ...
... ancient and " modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is fo far from being a wild paradife , that it is the moft regular garden , and laid out with more fymmetry than any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ...
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... Ancients " have always propofed Homer as the most perfect " model in every kind of poetry . " The third comparison is compofed of the errors " of the two former . Homer had certainly an incom- " parable fertility of invention , but his ...
... Ancients " have always propofed Homer as the most perfect " model in every kind of poetry . " The third comparison is compofed of the errors " of the two former . Homer had certainly an incom- " parable fertility of invention , but his ...
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... ancients are familiarifed , by adapting their fentiments to modern topics , by making Horace fay of Shakspeare what he originally faid of Ennius , and accommodating his fatires on Pantolabus and Nomentanus to the flatterers and ...
... ancients are familiarifed , by adapting their fentiments to modern topics , by making Horace fay of Shakspeare what he originally faid of Ennius , and accommodating his fatires on Pantolabus and Nomentanus to the flatterers and ...
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... Ancients ( to fay the leaft of them ) had as much genius as we ; and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They conftantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that ...
... Ancients ( to fay the leaft of them ) had as much genius as we ; and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They conftantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that ...
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