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... seems to be more awake and alive to all the foftneffes of nature , than almost writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and disagrecable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to ...
... seems to be more awake and alive to all the foftneffes of nature , than almost writer I can recollect . There is an affemblage of disgusting and disagrecable founds , in the following ftanza of POPE , which one is almoft tempted to ...
Page 120
... seems to have been difgufted with all religions and all governments . I have been informed from an eye - witness of one his laft interviews with POPE , who was then given over by the phyficians , that Bo- lingbroke , ftanding behind ...
... seems to have been difgufted with all religions and all governments . I have been informed from an eye - witness of one his laft interviews with POPE , who was then given over by the phyficians , that Bo- lingbroke , ftanding behind ...
Page 413
... seems to be a monotony , and want of different pauses , occafioned by tranflating a poem in rhyme , which he avoided in his Milton . It is one mark of a poem being intrinfi- cally good , that it is capable of being well tranflated . 1 ...
... seems to be a monotony , and want of different pauses , occafioned by tranflating a poem in rhyme , which he avoided in his Milton . It is one mark of a poem being intrinfi- cally good , that it is capable of being well tranflated . 1 ...
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