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Page 18
The personifications are frequent , but not confused ; are bold but not affected : a
free , lofty , and truly divine spirit predominates through the whole . Nor is any
thing wanting to crown and complete the sublimity of this ode with absolute
beauty ...
The personifications are frequent , but not confused ; are bold but not affected : a
free , lofty , and truly divine spirit predominates through the whole . Nor is any
thing wanting to crown and complete the sublimity of this ode with absolute
beauty ...
Page 148
So that however he is generally reputed the parent of those swarms of infect wits ,
who affect to be thought easy writers , it is evident that he bestowed much time
and care on his poems , before he ventured them out of his hands of . " 26 .
So that however he is generally reputed the parent of those swarms of infect wits ,
who affect to be thought easy writers , it is evident that he bestowed much time
and care on his poems , before he ventured them out of his hands of . " 26 .
Page 201
... necessarily been drawn , have once appeared , succeeding writers , by vainly
and ambitiously striving to surpass those just models , and to shine and surprise ,
do not become stiff , and forced , and affected in their thoughts and diction , cc .
... necessarily been drawn , have once appeared , succeeding writers , by vainly
and ambitiously striving to surpass those just models , and to shine and surprise ,
do not become stiff , and forced , and affected in their thoughts and diction , cc .
Page 244
Pope here appears in the light of a man of gallantry , and of a thorough knowlege
of the world ; and indeed , he had nothing , in his carriage and deportment , of
that affected singularity , which has induced some men of genius to despise , and
...
Pope here appears in the light of a man of gallantry , and of a thorough knowlege
of the world ; and indeed , he had nothing , in his carriage and deportment , of
that affected singularity , which has induced some men of genius to despise , and
...
Page 271
This of Jane Shore is , I think , the most interesting and affecting of any he has
given us : but probability is fadly violated in it by the neglect of the unity of time .
For a person to be supposed to be starved , during the representation of five acts
, is ...
This of Jane Shore is , I think , the most interesting and affecting of any he has
given us : but probability is fadly violated in it by the neglect of the unity of time .
For a person to be supposed to be starved , during the representation of five acts
, is ...
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Page 40 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 225 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 310 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Page 314 - Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
Page 134 - ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule.
Page 38 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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Page 184 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 97 - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Page 153 - Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give( And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... Volume 1 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | R. and J. Dodsley, 1762 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2006 |
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