The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8John & Arthur Arch ... and for Bell & Bradfute and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry |
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Page xii
... most tender affection after his death . His refentment was too easily excited , and his revenge carried to too great a length . The provocation he received by no means juftified , in many cafes , the fevere fatire of the Dunciad . His ...
... most tender affection after his death . His refentment was too easily excited , and his revenge carried to too great a length . The provocation he received by no means juftified , in many cafes , the fevere fatire of the Dunciad . His ...
Page xiii
... most highly finished , and certainly the most intercfting of the pieces of Pope ; and , together with the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is the only inftance of the pathetic he has given us . " The translation of Homer is a performance ...
... most highly finished , and certainly the most intercfting of the pieces of Pope ; and , together with the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is the only inftance of the pathetic he has given us . " The translation of Homer is a performance ...
Page xvi
... most poetic fpecies of poetry : whence it is manifeft , that good sense and judgment were his characteristical excellencies , rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock and Eloifa can be thought to ...
... most poetic fpecies of poetry : whence it is manifeft , that good sense and judgment were his characteristical excellencies , rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock and Eloifa can be thought to ...
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... most infig- nificant of all dunces , bad rhymers , and malevo- lent cavillers ; that he ought to raise and enoble it , by pointing his fatire against the most pernicious of all , minute philofophers and freethinkers . I imagined too ...
... most infig- nificant of all dunces , bad rhymers , and malevo- lent cavillers ; that he ought to raise and enoble it , by pointing his fatire against the most pernicious of all , minute philofophers and freethinkers . I imagined too ...
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... most mufically dull : So purling freams with even murmurs creep , And hush the heavy hearers into fleep . As fmootheft fpeech is moft deceitful found , The fmootheft numbers oft are empty found . But wit and judgment join at once in you ...
... most mufically dull : So purling freams with even murmurs creep , And hush the heavy hearers into fleep . As fmootheft fpeech is moft deceitful found , The fmootheft numbers oft are empty found . But wit and judgment join at once in you ...
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