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... numbers , * than by any power of invention , or vigour of senti- ment . They are not all of equal value ; the elegies excell the odes ; and some of the exercises on Gunpowder Treason might have been spared . The English poems , though ...
... numbers , * than by any power of invention , or vigour of senti- ment . They are not all of equal value ; the elegies excell the odes ; and some of the exercises on Gunpowder Treason might have been spared . The English poems , though ...
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... numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill ...
... numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill ...
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... numbers to another sense ; While many a merry tale , and many a song , Cheer'd the rough road , we wish'd the rough road long . The rough road then , returning in a round , Mock'd our impatient steps , for all was fairy ground . We have ...
... numbers to another sense ; While many a merry tale , and many a song , Cheer'd the rough road , we wish'd the rough road long . The rough road then , returning in a round , Mock'd our impatient steps , for all was fairy ground . We have ...
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