The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: SatiresB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, 1797 |
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... feems to be judicious and well - founded : " If you think my opinion worth regarding , I would fay , that the Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and confirmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured with a ...
... feems to be judicious and well - founded : " If you think my opinion worth regarding , I would fay , that the Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and confirmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured with a ...
Page 71
... feems to be more fpirit here than in the original : But it is hard to pronounce with certainty for though one may be confident there is more force in the 83d and 84th lines than in " Canidia Albuti , quibus eft inimica , venenum ; " yet ...
... feems to be more fpirit here than in the original : But it is hard to pronounce with certainty for though one may be confident there is more force in the 83d and 84th lines than in " Canidia Albuti , quibus eft inimica , venenum ; " yet ...
Page 77
... feems to allude , rather than to what Tully mentions in the second book De Oratore , of their amusing themselves in pick- ing up fhells and pebbles on the fea - fhore . Bolingbroke is here represented as pouring out himself to his ...
... feems to allude , rather than to what Tully mentions in the second book De Oratore , of their amusing themselves in pick- ing up fhells and pebbles on the fea - fhore . Bolingbroke is here represented as pouring out himself to his ...
Page 79
... feems to have been particularly fond of those ex- quifite morfels of wit and genius , the old Æsopic fables . He fre quently alludes to them , but always with a brevity very different from our modern writers of fable . Even the natural ...
... feems to have been particularly fond of those ex- quifite morfels of wit and genius , the old Æsopic fables . He fre quently alludes to them , but always with a brevity very different from our modern writers of fable . Even the natural ...
Page 89
... feems to have had in his eye a paffage of Lucilius , quoted by Macrobius : " Sed et Lucilius acer et violentus poeta , oftendit scire se hunc pifcem egregii faporis , qui inter duos pontes captus effet . " Porrectum magno magnum ...
... feems to have had in his eye a paffage of Lucilius , quoted by Macrobius : " Sed et Lucilius acer et violentus poeta , oftendit scire se hunc pifcem egregii faporis , qui inter duos pontes captus effet . " Porrectum magno magnum ...
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