 ... the learned author of the Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope; a book which teaches how the brow of criticism may be smoothed, and how she may be enabled, with all her severity, to attract and to delight.  The British Essayists;: Adventurer - Page xxxby Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...mystick writers by the earned author of the " Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope ;" a book »hich teaches how the brow of Criticism may be smoothed, and how she nay be enabled, with all l\er seventy, to attract and to delight. The train of my disquisition has... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...to be the mystfck writers by the learned author of the " Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope ;" a book which teaches how the brow of Criticism may...with all her severity, to attract and to delight. The train of my disquisition has now conducted me to that poetical wonder, the translation of the "... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...volume of his " Essay on the genius and writings of Pope :" " A book," says the supercilious Johnson, " which teaches how the brow of criticism may be smoothed,...enabled, with all her severity, to attract and to delight ;" but which, as it counteracted the stream of fashion, and opposed long received prejudices, did not... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 912 pages
...volume of his " Eslay on the genius and writings of Pope:" " A book," fays the supercilious Johnson, " which teaches how the brow of criticism may be smoothed, and how she * Boi well's Life of Johnson, I. 124. may may be enabled, with all her severity, to attract and to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...to be the mystick writers by the learned author of the " Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope ;" a book which teaches how the brow of Criticism may...with all her severity, to attract and to delight. The train of my disquisition has now conducted me to that poetical wonder, the translation of the "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...to be the mystick writers by the learned author of the " Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope ;" a book which teaches how the brow of Criticism may...with all her severity, to attract and to delight. The train of my disquisition has now conducted me tcf that poetical wonder, the translation of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...shown to be the mystic writers by the learned author of the " Kssay on the Life and Writings of Pope ;" a book which teaches how the brow of criticism may...with all her severity, to attract and to delight.' The train of my disquisition has now conducted me to that poetical wonder, the translation of the Iliad,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...shown to be the mystic writers by the learned author of the " Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope;" a book which teaches how the brow of criticism may...be enabled, with all her severity, to attract and to'delight. The train of my disquisition has now conducted me to that poetical wonder, the translation... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...shown to be the mystic writers by the learned author of the Essay on the Life and Writing?"of Pope; a book which teaches how the brow of Criticism may...and how she may be enabled, with all her severity, lo attract atxi to delight The train of my disquition has now conducted me to that poetical wonder,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...apprehend; you, whose essay teaches, as the critical biographer very truly and liberally observed, " how the brow of criticism may be smoothed, and how...be enabled, with all her severity, to attract and delight." Yet to shew how apt a writer of verses is to VOL. i. b accuse a prof cat critic of severity,... | |
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