“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1Fredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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Page 8
... Eclogues are fomewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He is fometimes too allegorical , and treats of matters of religion in a pastoral style , as Mantuan had done before him . He has employed the Lyric measure , which ...
... Eclogues are fomewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He is fometimes too allegorical , and treats of matters of religion in a pastoral style , as Mantuan had done before him . He has employed the Lyric measure , which ...
Page 9
... Eclogues , is very beautiful ; fince by this , befides the general moral of innocence and fimplicity , which is common to other authors of Paftoral , he has one peculiar to himfelf ; he compares human Life to the feveral Seafons , and ...
... Eclogues , is very beautiful ; fince by this , befides the general moral of innocence and fimplicity , which is common to other authors of Paftoral , he has one peculiar to himfelf ; he compares human Life to the feveral Seafons , and ...
Page 10
... Eclogues ( as the fixth , eighth , and tenth for example ) have nothing but their Titles to diftinguifh them . The reafon is evident , becaufe the year has not that variety in it to furnish every month with a particular defcrip- tion ...
... Eclogues ( as the fixth , eighth , and tenth for example ) have nothing but their Titles to diftinguifh them . The reafon is evident , becaufe the year has not that variety in it to furnish every month with a particular defcrip- tion ...
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... Eclogues , where his mistress is in celebrated under that of Rofalinda . IMITATIONS . VER . 17. Virgil again from de Cyclops of Theocritus , nuper me in litore vidi , Cum placidum ventis ftaret mare ; non ego Daphnim , Judice te ...
... Eclogues , where his mistress is in celebrated under that of Rofalinda . IMITATIONS . VER . 17. Virgil again from de Cyclops of Theocritus , nuper me in litore vidi , Cum placidum ventis ftaret mare ; non ego Daphnim , Judice te ...
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