The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 5J. Balfour, 1764 |
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Page xxiii
... Criticism about an elegy of Ovid . XVIII . On fickness and disappointment . XIX . XX . Of Philips's pastorals , XXI . From Mr Cromwell . On a paffage in Lucan . LETTER XXII . Answer to the former , with another CONTENTS . xxiii.
... Criticism about an elegy of Ovid . XVIII . On fickness and disappointment . XIX . XX . Of Philips's pastorals , XXI . From Mr Cromwell . On a paffage in Lucan . LETTER XXII . Answer to the former , with another CONTENTS . xxiii.
Page 53
... Ovid and Lu- can ; and when they write themselves , we find out all the mystery . They fcan their verfes upon their fingers ; run after Conceits and glaring thoughts ; their poems are all made up of Couplets , of which the first may be ...
... Ovid and Lu- can ; and when they write themselves , we find out all the mystery . They fcan their verfes upon their fingers ; run after Conceits and glaring thoughts ; their poems are all made up of Couplets , of which the first may be ...
Page 86
... Ovid , nor I with my Statius , can amuse a board of Juftices and extraordinary ' Squires , or gain one hum of approbation , or laugh of admiration . These things ( they would fay ) are too ftudious , they may do well enough with fuch as ...
... Ovid , nor I with my Statius , can amuse a board of Juftices and extraordinary ' Squires , or gain one hum of approbation , or laugh of admiration . These things ( they would fay ) are too ftudious , they may do well enough with fuch as ...
Page 89
... Ovid . Since when , I have not had a syllable from your hands ; so that ' tis to be fear'd that tho ' I have efcaped death , I have not oblivion . I should at least have expected you to have finished that elegy upon me , which you told ...
... Ovid . Since when , I have not had a syllable from your hands ; so that ' tis to be fear'd that tho ' I have efcaped death , I have not oblivion . I should at least have expected you to have finished that elegy upon me , which you told ...
Page 95
... Ovid's elegy . It is very much an image of that author's writing , who has an agreeableness that charms us without correctness , like a mistress , whofe faults we fee , but love her with them all . You have very judici- ously alter'd ...
... Ovid's elegy . It is very much an image of that author's writing , who has an agreeableness that charms us without correctness , like a mistress , whofe faults we fee , but love her with them all . You have very judici- ously alter'd ...
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