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" It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. "
The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 369
by Alexander Pope - 1822
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...is only becaufe they are over-run and oppreit by thofe of a ftronger nature. It is to the ftrength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is fo forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf while he reads him....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...is only becaufe they are overrun and opprefled by thofe of a ftronger Nature. It is to the flreagth of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is Co forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirk is mailer of himfelf while he reads him....
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 35

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...is only becaufe they are over-run and oppreft by thofe of a ftronger nature. It is to the ftrength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is fo forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirit is matter of himfelf while he reads him....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous ...

Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...becaufe they are over-ran and opprefled 'Lby thofe of a ftronger nature. '.. v ' It is to the firength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is fo forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf while he reads him....
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...is only becaufe they are over-run and oppreft by thofe of a ftronger nature. It is to the ftrength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is fo forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mailer of himfelf while he reads him....
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1797 - 618 pages
...of his pieces, affects not our minds with such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton ; so that no man, of a true poetical spirit, is master of himself while he reads them. Hence he is a writer fit for universal perusal, and of general utility ; adapted to all ages...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 23

1797 - 616 pages
...pieces, affects not our minds \vith such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton ; so tint no man, of a true poetical spirit, is master of himself while he reads them. Hence he is a writer fit for universal perusal, and of general utility; adapted to all ages and...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...that rapture and fiie, which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. Homer makes you interested 'and concerned before you are aware, all at once, whereas Virgil does it...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...only becaufe they are over-run and opprefled by thofe of a ftronger nature. ' It is to the ftrength of this amazing Invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is fo forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mafler of himfelf while he reads him....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...only becaufe they are over-run and opprefled by thofe of a ftronger nature. -> It is to the ftrength of this amazing Invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, ' which is fo forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf while he reads him....
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