 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...performing them ; for the firft qualification they unanimoufly require in a Poet, is a Genius. I mall here endeavour (for the benefit of my Countrymen)...make it manifeft, that Epic poems may be made without and treated it in a philofophical Ariftotelian manner, in a laboured Dsliertation, which he exemplified... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 446 pages
...performing them ; for the firft qualification they unanimoufly require in a Poet, is a Genius. I (hall here endeavour (for the benefit of my Countrymen)...make it manifeft> that Epic poems may be made without and treated it in a philofophical Ariflotelian manner, in a laboured DifTertation, which he exemplified... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those who CQnis in eighteen books, on the Recovery of our Saviour's... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...a poet is a genius. I shall here endeavour, for the benefit of my countrymen, to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay, without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those who confess they never read, and of whom the world is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made ' without a genius,' nay, without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay, without learning or much Voltaire has added a work that ought to be exempted from this catalogue, the St Louis of the Jesuit... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay, without learning or much Voltaire has added a work that ought to be exempted from this catalogue, the St Louis of the Jesuit... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 pages
...a poet is a genius. I shall here endeavour, for the benefit of my countrymen, to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made ' without a genius,' nay, without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...is a Genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my Countrymen) to make it manifest, that the Epic Poems may be made without a Genius, nay without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those who confess they never Read, and of whom the world is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...is a Genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my Countrymen) to make it manifest, that the Epic Poems may be made without a Genius, nay without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those who confess they never Read, and of whom the world is... | |
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