Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips, Sampson, 1857 |
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Page viii
... Virgil , and Spenser ; Mr. Pope is of opinion that Theocritus excels all others in nature and simplicity . That Virgil , who copies Theocritus , refines on his original ; and in all points in which judgment has the principal part , is ...
... Virgil , and Spenser ; Mr. Pope is of opinion that Theocritus excels all others in nature and simplicity . That Virgil , who copies Theocritus , refines on his original ; and in all points in which judgment has the principal part , is ...
Page ix
... Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Pastorals appeared . Mr. Walsh pronounces on our Shepherd's boy ( as Mr. Pope called himself , ) the following judgment , in a letter to Mr. Wycherley : " The verses are very tender and easy ...
... Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Pastorals appeared . Mr. Walsh pronounces on our Shepherd's boy ( as Mr. Pope called himself , ) the following judgment , in a letter to Mr. Wycherley : " The verses are very tender and easy ...
Page 37
... Virgil , is certainly true ; as Homer is a more various and diffuse poet than Virgil ; and it is likewise true that Pope has even exceeded Dryden in the execution , and none will deny that Pope's Homer's Iliad is a finer poem than ...
... Virgil , is certainly true ; as Homer is a more various and diffuse poet than Virgil ; and it is likewise true that Pope has even exceeded Dryden in the execution , and none will deny that Pope's Homer's Iliad is a finer poem than ...
Page 50
... Adieu , ye shepherd's rural lays and loves ; Adieu , my flocks ; farewell , ye sylvan crew : Daphne , farewell ! and all the world , adicu ! MESSIAH . A sacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil's Pollu 50 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
... Adieu , ye shepherd's rural lays and loves ; Adieu , my flocks ; farewell , ye sylvan crew : Daphne , farewell ! and all the world , adicu ! MESSIAH . A sacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil's Pollu 50 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... Virgil's Pollu . ADVERTISEMENT . n reading several passages of the prophet Isaiah , which foretell the coming of ... Virgil . This will not seem surprising when we re flect , that the eclogue was taken from a Sibylline pro- phecy on the ...
... Virgil's Pollu . ADVERTISEMENT . n reading several passages of the prophet Isaiah , which foretell the coming of ... Virgil . This will not seem surprising when we re flect , that the eclogue was taken from a Sibylline pro- phecy on the ...
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