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Joseph Warton. fay how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- CANDER , when about twelve . The fcene of it lay at Rhodes , and some of the neigh- bouring iflands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a defcription of the court of Neptune ...
Joseph Warton. fay how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- CANDER , when about twelve . The fcene of it lay at Rhodes , and some of the neigh- bouring iflands ; and the poem opened under the water , with a defcription of the court of Neptune ...
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... poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philofophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from fome beautiful fragments , we might have . added Gray's didactic poem on ...
... poem of Brown on the Immortality of the Soul , the Latin poems of STAY and Bos- COVICK , and the philofophical poem before us ; to which , if we may judge from fome beautiful fragments , we might have . added Gray's didactic poem on ...
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... poem obfcure , as we know not who these perfonages are , nor whence they came . After all , the chief fault of the ... poem , Mac Flecnoe , from which PoPE has borrowed fo many hints , and images , and ideas . But Dryden's poem was the ...
... poem obfcure , as we know not who these perfonages are , nor whence they came . After all , the chief fault of the ... poem , Mac Flecnoe , from which PoPE has borrowed fo many hints , and images , and ideas . But Dryden's poem was the ...
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