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Page 169
... we are not yet debauched with any high Relith in Poetry , but are in this one
Taste less nice than our ancestors . ... to experience whether there have not been
, in proportion to their number , as many starving good Poets , as bad ones .
... we are not yet debauched with any high Relith in Poetry , but are in this one
Taste less nice than our ancestors . ... to experience whether there have not been
, in proportion to their number , as many starving good Poets , as bad ones .
Page 170
From hence it follows , that a fuppression of the very worst Poetry is of dangerous
consequence to the State . We find by experience , that the same humours which
vent themselves in summer in Ballads and Sonnets , are condenfed by the ...
From hence it follows , that a fuppression of the very worst Poetry is of dangerous
consequence to the State . We find by experience , that the same humours which
vent themselves in summer in Ballads and Sonnets , are condenfed by the ...
Page 187
But it may seem somewhat strange to affert , that our Proficient should also read
the works of those famous Poets who have ... Horrificis Horrificis juxta tonat Ætna
ruinis , Interdumque atram prorumpit ad Of the Art of SINKING IN POETRY .
But it may seem somewhat strange to affert , that our Proficient should also read
the works of those famous Poets who have ... Horrificis Horrificis juxta tonat Ætna
ruinis , Interdumque atram prorumpit ad Of the Art of SINKING IN POETRY .
Page 253
HE time of the election of a Poet Laureate being now at hand , it may be proper -
to give some accout of the rites and ... As we now see an age and a court , that for
the encouragement of poetry rivals , if not exceeds , that of this famous Pope ...
HE time of the election of a Poet Laureate being now at hand , it may be proper -
to give some accout of the rites and ... As we now see an age and a court , that for
the encouragement of poetry rivals , if not exceeds , that of this famous Pope ...
Page 254
All the wits 66 and critics of the court flocked about him , de" lighted to see a
clown , with a ruddy , hale com« plexion , and in his own long hair , fo top full of
poetry ; and at the first sight of him all agreed « he was born to be Poet Laureate *
.
All the wits 66 and critics of the court flocked about him , de" lighted to see a
clown , with a ruddy , hale com« plexion , and in his own long hair , fo top full of
poetry ; and at the first sight of him all agreed « he was born to be Poet Laureate *
.
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| Title | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 6 The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Alexander Pope Volume 6 of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, William Warburton |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | William Warburton |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2006 |
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