The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonT. Longman, 1794 - English poetry |
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... fenfe with fufficient certainty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the mufick of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical ...
... fenfe with fufficient certainty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the mufick of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical ...
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... fenfe , a lover of his coun- try ; for fociety , politically regulated , is a state contradiftinguished from a state of na- ture ; and any attention to that coalition of interefts which makes the happinefs of a country , is poffible ...
... fenfe , a lover of his coun- try ; for fociety , politically regulated , is a state contradiftinguished from a state of na- ture ; and any attention to that coalition of interefts which makes the happinefs of a country , is poffible ...
Page 152
... own conceptions , what was to be chofen , and what to be rejected ; and , in the works of others , what was to be fhunned , and what was to be copied . But But good fenfe alone is a fedate and quiefcent quality 152 POPE .
... own conceptions , what was to be chofen , and what to be rejected ; and , in the works of others , what was to be fhunned , and what was to be copied . But But good fenfe alone is a fedate and quiefcent quality 152 POPE .
Page 153
Samuel Johnson. But good fenfe alone is a fedate and quiefcent quality , which manages its poffeffions well , but does not increase them ; it collects few materials for its own operations , and preferves safety , but never gains ...
Samuel Johnson. But good fenfe alone is a fedate and quiefcent quality , which manages its poffeffions well , but does not increase them ; it collects few materials for its own operations , and preferves safety , but never gains ...
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... fenfe , have produced , in my opinion , many wild conceits and imagi- nary beauties . All that can furnish this repre- sentation are the founds of the words confi- dered fingly , and the time in which they are pronounced . Every ...
... fenfe , have produced , in my opinion , many wild conceits and imagi- nary beauties . All that can furnish this repre- sentation are the founds of the words confi- dered fingly , and the time in which they are pronounced . Every ...
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