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, Volume 1C. Cooke, 1795 |
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... Theocritus and Virgil ( the only undisputed au- thors of Paftoral ) that the critics have drawn the fore- going notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in nature and fimpli- city . The fubjects of his Idyllia are purely ...
... Theocritus and Virgil ( the only undisputed au- thors of Paftoral ) that the critics have drawn the fore- going notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in nature and fimpli- city . The fubjects of his Idyllia are purely ...
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... Theocritus , refines upon his original ; and , in all points where judgment is princi- pally concerned , he is much fuperior to his master . Though fome of his fubjects are not paftoral in them . felves , but only feem to be fuch , they ...
... Theocritus , refines upon his original ; and , in all points where judgment is princi- pally concerned , he is much fuperior to his master . Though fome of his fubjects are not paftoral in them . felves , but only feem to be fuch , they ...
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... Theocritus ; it was used in part of Greece , and frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest perfons : whereas the old English and country phrafes of Spencer were either entirely obfolete , or spoken only by people of the lowest ...
... Theocritus ; it was used in part of Greece , and frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest perfons : whereas the old English and country phrafes of Spencer were either entirely obfolete , or spoken only by people of the lowest ...
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