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That the design of pastoral poesy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the
golden age , is an empty notion , which , though supported by a Rapin and a
Fontenelle , 1 think , all rational critics have agreed to extirpate and explode . But
I do ...
That the design of pastoral poesy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the
golden age , is an empty notion , which , though supported by a Rapin and a
Fontenelle , 1 think , all rational critics have agreed to extirpate and explode . But
I do ...
Page 112
And one of the best pieces of modern criticism , the academy ' s observations on
the Cid , was , we know , the work of persons ... one of the best pieces of prose in
the English language , is an example how well poets are qualified to be critics .
And one of the best pieces of modern criticism , the academy ' s observations on
the Cid , was , we know , the work of persons ... one of the best pieces of prose in
the English language , is an example how well poets are qualified to be critics .
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The authority claimed by critics may be more justly opposed , as it is apparently
derived from them whom they endeavour to controul ; for we are indebted for a
very small part of the rules of writing to the acutenefs of those by whom they are ...
The authority claimed by critics may be more justly opposed , as it is apparently
derived from them whom they endeavour to controul ; for we are indebted for a
very small part of the rules of writing to the acutenefs of those by whom they are ...
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Nor did the gravest philosophers , who were censors of manners , and critics of a
higher degree , disdain to exert their criticism on the inferior arts ; especially in
those relating to speech , and the power of argument and persuasion . When
such ...
Nor did the gravest philosophers , who were censors of manners , and critics of a
higher degree , disdain to exert their criticism on the inferior arts ; especially in
those relating to speech , and the power of argument and persuasion . When
such ...
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It is perpetually the nauseous cant of the French critics , and of their advocates
and pupils , that the English writers are generally INCORRECT . If
CORRECTness implies an absence of petty faults , this perhaps may be granted .
If it means , that ...
It is perpetually the nauseous cant of the French critics , and of their advocates
and pupils , that the English writers are generally INCORRECT . If
CORRECTness implies an absence of petty faults , this perhaps may be granted .
If it means , that ...
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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.
Page 13 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
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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