The Life of Alexander Pope: Esq. Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius. By Owen Ruffhead, EsqC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, [and 8 others in London], 1769 - Electronic books - 578 pages |
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Page 36
... ideas , may be juftly deemed a ble- mith in the PASTORALS of POPE : and pro- priety , " he adds , " is certain to be violated , when he couples Pactolus with the Thames , & c . How far fuch a violation is to be imputed to our poet , let ...
... ideas , may be juftly deemed a ble- mith in the PASTORALS of POPE : and pro- priety , " he adds , " is certain to be violated , when he couples Pactolus with the Thames , & c . How far fuch a violation is to be imputed to our poet , let ...
Page 37
... ideas . Ever partial to his favourite Sicilian , the cri- tic prefers his imagery to Mr. POPE's in the following inftance . " A fhepherd , " fays he , " in Theocritus , wifhes with much tendernefs and elegance , both which muft fuffer ...
... ideas . Ever partial to his favourite Sicilian , the cri- tic prefers his imagery to Mr. POPE's in the following inftance . " A fhepherd , " fays he , " in Theocritus , wifhes with much tendernefs and elegance , both which muft fuffer ...
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... very injudicious to have risen too high in the opening , more especially as the ideas which follow , afford him fuch an opportunity of fwelling into a beauti- ful ful climax . But let the reader judge for him- 60 1 THE LIFE OF.
... very injudicious to have risen too high in the opening , more especially as the ideas which follow , afford him fuch an opportunity of fwelling into a beauti- ful ful climax . But let the reader judge for him- 60 1 THE LIFE OF.
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... ideas : tafte , is the fame faculty of comparison improved , and ap- plied to works of imagination and elegance . The man of tafte feems at one glance , by a kind of intuition , to difcern what is beautiful and elegant ; and this has ...
... ideas : tafte , is the fame faculty of comparison improved , and ap- plied to works of imagination and elegance . The man of tafte feems at one glance , by a kind of intuition , to difcern what is beautiful and elegant ; and this has ...
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... ideas ; but the bufinefs of Selecting fuch images as are truly beautiful , feems to be the province of tafte ; which , as the term imports , is the faculty of difcerning , or in its etymological fenfe , of feeling what is beautiful . It ...
... ideas ; but the bufinefs of Selecting fuch images as are truly beautiful , feems to be the province of tafte ; which , as the term imports , is the faculty of difcerning , or in its etymological fenfe , of feeling what is beautiful . It ...
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