The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3Ingram, Cooke, 1853 |
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... Virgil , and a laboured ( not to say affected ) shortness in imitation of him , I should think him more an admirer of the Roman poet than of the Grecian , and in that not of the same taste with his friend . 2 See the list of those ...
... Virgil , and a laboured ( not to say affected ) shortness in imitation of him , I should think him more an admirer of the Roman poet than of the Grecian , and in that not of the same taste with his friend . 2 See the list of those ...
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... Virgil the Eneid , of Camoens the Lusiad , we may pronounce could have been , and can be no other than the " Dunciad . " It is styled heroic , as being doubly so ; not only with respect to its nature , which according to the best rules ...
... Virgil the Eneid , of Camoens the Lusiad , we may pronounce could have been , and can be no other than the " Dunciad . " It is styled heroic , as being doubly so ; not only with respect to its nature , which according to the best rules ...
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... Virgil of the most perfect epic performance . And those parts of Homer which have been published already by Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad will appear in English with as little disadvantage to that immortal poem ...
... Virgil of the most perfect epic performance . And those parts of Homer which have been published already by Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad will appear in English with as little disadvantage to that immortal poem ...
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... Virgil than in any other work , except this of our author only . " " 44 The author of a letter to Mr. CIBBER says , 45 " Pope was so good a versifier [ once ] that , his predecessor Mr. Dryden , and his contemporary Mr. Prior , excepted ...
... Virgil than in any other work , except this of our author only . " " 44 The author of a letter to Mr. CIBBER says , 45 " Pope was so good a versifier [ once ] that , his predecessor Mr. Dryden , and his contemporary Mr. Prior , excepted ...
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... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore , at the like age composing his Arthurs , declared the same to be the very acme and pitch of life for epic poesy : though since he hath altered it to sixty , the year in which he ...
... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore , at the like age composing his Arthurs , declared the same to be the very acme and pitch of life for epic poesy : though since he hath altered it to sixty , the year in which he ...
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