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Page vii
... eminent . No author is oftener read , and none oftener quoted : and he owes this preference to what some critics have objected to him , namely , that he preferred sense and reason to imagination . But does not THE LIFE OF POPE . vii.
... eminent . No author is oftener read , and none oftener quoted : and he owes this preference to what some critics have objected to him , namely , that he preferred sense and reason to imagination . But does not THE LIFE OF POPE . vii.
Page viii
... reason , sense , and satire , Pope stands at the head of a school the most numerous of any . Among his imitators , indeed , we find almost all the names of any considerable merit since his days ; and if inven tion has been too much ...
... reason , sense , and satire , Pope stands at the head of a school the most numerous of any . Among his imitators , indeed , we find almost all the names of any considerable merit since his days ; and if inven tion has been too much ...
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... reason for his labouring them into so much softness , was , doubtless , that this sort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought , and smoothness of verse ; whereas that of most other kinds con- sists in ...
... reason for his labouring them into so much softness , was , doubtless , that this sort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought , and smoothness of verse ; whereas that of most other kinds con- sists in ...
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... reason his expression is sometimes not concise enough ; for the tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and ...
... reason his expression is sometimes not concise enough ; for the tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and ...
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... reason to admire . Then criticism the muse's handmaid prov'd , To dress her charms , and make her more belov'd : But following wits from that intention stray'd , Who could not win the mistress woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their ...
... reason to admire . Then criticism the muse's handmaid prov'd , To dress her charms , and make her more belov'd : But following wits from that intention stray'd , Who could not win the mistress woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their ...
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