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Page vi
... such out of fashion , and not of feeling ? SWIFT's rhapfody on poetry is far more popular than Akenfide's noble ode to lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your sprightly fatires , my good friend , are ...
... such out of fashion , and not of feeling ? SWIFT's rhapfody on poetry is far more popular than Akenfide's noble ode to lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your sprightly fatires , my good friend , are ...
Page xi
... class should be ranked , such as poffeffed the true 2 , poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . 1 At At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , DEDICATION . xi.
... class should be ranked , such as poffeffed the true 2 , poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . 1 At At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , DEDICATION . xi.
Page xii
... Such as PITT , SANDYS , FAIRFAX , BROOME , BUCK- INGHAM , LANSDOWN . This enumera- tion is not intended as a complete ca- talogue of writers , and in their proper order , but only to mark out briefly the different fpecies of our ...
... Such as PITT , SANDYS , FAIRFAX , BROOME , BUCK- INGHAM , LANSDOWN . This enumera- tion is not intended as a complete ca- talogue of writers , and in their proper order , but only to mark out briefly the different fpecies of our ...
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... such genuine and sub- lime poetry as the conclufion before us . It is one of the greatest and most pleasing arts of defcriptive poetry , to introduce moral fentences and inftructions in an oblique and indirect manner , in places where ...
... such genuine and sub- lime poetry as the conclufion before us . It is one of the greatest and most pleasing arts of defcriptive poetry , to introduce moral fentences and inftructions in an oblique and indirect manner , in places where ...
Page 38
... Such is the power of true poetry , that one is almost inclined to believe the supersti- tions here alluded to , to be real ; and the fucceeding circumstances make one start and look around ; In confecrated earth , And on the holy hearth ...
... Such is the power of true poetry , that one is almost inclined to believe the supersti- tions here alluded to , to be real ; and the fucceeding circumstances make one start and look around ; In confecrated earth , And on the holy hearth ...
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