 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 pages
...ethical authors in verfe. And this fpccies of writing is, afler all, the fureft road to an extenfive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more genuine poetry. " Where then, according to the queftion propofed at the beginning of... | |
 | 1782 - 440 pages
...Ethical authors in verfe. And this fpecies of writing is, after all, the fureft ro?d to an extenfive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more genuine poetry. We all remember when even a Churchill was more in vogue than a Gray.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...help to confirm them. And And this fpecles of writing is, after all, the fared road to an extenfive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more genuine poetry. We all remember when even a Churchill was more in vogue than a Gray.... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...help to confirm them« And And this fpecies of writing is, after all, the fureft road to an extenfive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more genuine poetry. We all remember when even a Churchill was more in vogue than a Gray.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...this fpecies of writing is, after all, the fureft road to an epctenfive and immediate repu. tation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men,...genuine poetry. Waller was more applauded than the Paradife Loft ; and we all remember when Churchill was more in vogue than Gray. .....' ...,.' We live... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 pages
...by choice, not neceffity. And this fpecies of writing is, after all, the fureft road to an extenfive and immediate reputation. It lies more level to the...higher ffights of more exalted and genuine poetry. Wafler was more applauded than the Paradife Loft ; and we all remember when Churchill was more in vogue... | |
 | 1797 - 618 pages
...by choice, not necessity. And this species of writing is, after all, the surest road to an extensive and immediate reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more exalted and "genuine poetry. Waller was more applauded than the Paradise Lost; and... | |
 | 1798 - 752 pages
...choice, not neceffity. And this fpecics of writing is, alter all, tlic fureft road to an extenfive and immediate reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more exalted and genuine poetry. lYalltr was more applauded than the Paradife Lift; and... | |
 | 1798 - 756 pages
...immediate reputation. It lies more level to the general ca~ ¡Mcitit» of men, than the higher flights of more exalted and genuine poetry. Waller was more applauded than the Paradife L)ß; and we all remember, when Cburcbittwaa more in rogue th&aGrojt." Vol. iplxvii. It will... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...ethical authors in verfe. ^nd this fpecies of writing is, after all, the fureft road to an extenfive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men, than the higher flights of more genuine poetry. •' Wherç then, according to the queftjon propofed at the beginning... | |
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Pope. Surely it is no narrow and niggardly encomium to say he is the great Poet of Reason, the first of ethical authors in verse. 
