Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... Pope . She had married Dr. Delany , a man known to his contemporaries as a profound scholar and an eloquent preacher , but remembered in our time chiefly as one of that small circle in which the fierce spirit of Swift , tortured by ...
... Pope . She had married Dr. Delany , a man known to his contemporaries as a profound scholar and an eloquent preacher , but remembered in our time chiefly as one of that small circle in which the fierce spirit of Swift , tortured by ...
Pagina 56
... Pope . Who would not have expected them to be insipid likenesses of each other ? No such thing . Harpagon is not more unlike to Jourdain , Joseph Surface is not more unlike to Sir Lucius O'Trigger , than every one of Miss Austen's young ...
... Pope . Who would not have expected them to be insipid likenesses of each other ? No such thing . Harpagon is not more unlike to Jourdain , Joseph Surface is not more unlike to Sir Lucius O'Trigger , than every one of Miss Austen's young ...
Pagina 79
... Pope to discover the trick , to make himself complete master of it , and to teach it to every body else . From the time when his Pastorals appeared , heroic versifi- cation became matter of rule and compass ; and , before long , all ...
... Pope to discover the trick , to make himself complete master of it , and to teach it to every body else . From the time when his Pastorals appeared , heroic versifi- cation became matter of rule and compass ; and , before long , all ...
Pagina 80
... Pope there has been a glut of lines of this sort ; and we are now as little disposed to admire a man for being able to write them , as for being able to write his name . But in the days of William the Third such versifi- cation was rare ...
... Pope there has been a glut of lines of this sort ; and we are now as little disposed to admire a man for being able to write them , as for being able to write his name . But in the days of William the Third such versifi- cation was rare ...
Pagina 100
... Pope's genius . The chief merit of the Campaign , we think , is that which was noticed by Johnson , the manly and rational rejection of fic- tion . The first great poet whose works have come down to us sang of war long before war became ...
... Pope's genius . The chief merit of the Campaign , we think , is that which was noticed by Johnson , the manly and rational rejection of fic- tion . The first great poet whose works have come down to us sang of war long before war became ...
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