The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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Page xi
... light , and illustrated with such " apt allusions , that they have in them all the graces of novelty , and make the reader , who was " before acquainted with them , still more con- " vinced of their truth and solidity . And here " give ...
... light , and illustrated with such " apt allusions , that they have in them all the graces of novelty , and make the reader , who was " before acquainted with them , still more con- " vinced of their truth and solidity . And here " give ...
Page xii
... lights . " If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he " will find but few precepts in it which he may " not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not " commonly known by all the poets of the Au- 66 gustan age . His way of ...
... lights . " If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he " will find but few precepts in it which he may " not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not " commonly known by all the poets of the Au- 66 gustan age . His way of ...
Page xv
... light advised him , if his nature was capable of it , to divest himself of part of his vanity , which was too great for his merit ; that he had not arrived yet to that pitch of excel- lence he might imagine , or think his most partial ...
... light advised him , if his nature was capable of it , to divest himself of part of his vanity , which was too great for his merit ; that he had not arrived yet to that pitch of excel- lence he might imagine , or think his most partial ...
Page xxiii
... light which cannot be too visible , and " sinks in the obscurity of the shade what does " not require a full view ; so that it may be said " that Homer is the painter who best knew how to employ the shades and lights . The second ...
... light which cannot be too visible , and " sinks in the obscurity of the shade what does " not require a full view ; so that it may be said " that Homer is the painter who best knew how to employ the shades and lights . The second ...
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... light of translators , it will , indeed , be difficult to determine into whose scale the balance should be thrown . That Mr. Pope had a more arduous province in doing justice to Homer , than Dryden with regard to Virgil , is certainly ...
... light of translators , it will , indeed , be difficult to determine into whose scale the balance should be thrown . That Mr. Pope had a more arduous province in doing justice to Homer , than Dryden with regard to Virgil , is certainly ...
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