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Page 59
... beauty in this Effay be uncommonly tran- scendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few , inftances , and those pardonable , has occafioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much fense , how much ...
... beauty in this Effay be uncommonly tran- scendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few , inftances , and those pardonable , has occafioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much fense , how much ...
Page 92
... beauty's reign , Converts to pleasure ev'ry pain , Subdues the hoftile forms to rest , And bids the universe be bleft . " " This is that magic divine , which by an efficacy past com- prehenfion , can transform every appearance , the ...
... beauty's reign , Converts to pleasure ev'ry pain , Subdues the hoftile forms to rest , And bids the universe be bleft . " " This is that magic divine , which by an efficacy past com- prehenfion , can transform every appearance , the ...
Page 340
... beauty in Horace ; he has fuddenly , according to his manner , introduced Lucullus speaking ; " qui pof- fum , & c . " He is for ever introducing thefe little interlocutions , which give his fatires and epiftles an air fo lively and dra ...
... beauty in Horace ; he has fuddenly , according to his manner , introduced Lucullus speaking ; " qui pof- fum , & c . " He is for ever introducing thefe little interlocutions , which give his fatires and epiftles an air fo lively and dra ...
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