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Page 67
... reason , would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the laft , he crops the flowery food , And licks the band juft rais'd to fhed his blood + . The tenderness of this striking image , and particularly the circumftance in the last line , has an ...
... reason , would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the laft , he crops the flowery food , And licks the band juft rais'd to fhed his blood + . The tenderness of this striking image , and particularly the circumftance in the last line , has an ...
Page 154
... whilst he was unknown , that it was impoffible it could be POPE's , on account of this very paffage . Pore inferted many good lines in Harte's Eflay on Reason . • V. 205 . the is not nd te- its of hyme for eces nefs 154 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... whilst he was unknown , that it was impoffible it could be POPE's , on account of this very paffage . Pore inferted many good lines in Harte's Eflay on Reason . • V. 205 . the is not nd te- its of hyme for eces nefs 154 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 409
... niggardly encomium to fay he is the great Poet of Reason , the First of Ethical authors in verfe . And this fpecies of writing is , after all , the fureft road road to an extenfive reputation . It lies more level AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 409.
... niggardly encomium to fay he is the great Poet of Reason , the First of Ethical authors in verfe . And this fpecies of writing is , after all , the fureft road road to an extenfive reputation . It lies more level AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 409.
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