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... beautiful : it's vallies and it's pre- cipices , it's grottos and cascades were SWEET- LY INTERCHANGED , and it's flowers and fruits were lavish and luscious . The poet defcribed what he faw and felt : and had ro need to have recourfe ...
... beautiful : it's vallies and it's pre- cipices , it's grottos and cascades were SWEET- LY INTERCHANGED , and it's flowers and fruits were lavish and luscious . The poet defcribed what he faw and felt : and had ro need to have recourfe ...
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... beautiful , perfonifi- cations . The fong begins with a fudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and death of the tyrant . Earth with her inhabitants triumphs ; the ...
... beautiful , perfonifi- cations . The fong begins with a fudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and death of the tyrant . Earth with her inhabitants triumphs ; the ...
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... beautiful . The lonely mountains o'er , And the refounding shore , A voice of weeping heard , and loud lament ! From haunted spring , and dale Edg'd with poplar pale , The parting Genius is with fighing fent ; With flower - enwoven ...
... beautiful . The lonely mountains o'er , And the refounding shore , A voice of weeping heard , and loud lament ! From haunted spring , and dale Edg'd with poplar pale , The parting Genius is with fighing fent ; With flower - enwoven ...
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... beautiful trochaics , By the hero's armed fhades Glittering through the gloomy glades , By the youths that dy'd for love Wand'ring in the myrtle grove ; • Ver . 480 . Thefe These images are picturefque and appropri- ated ; and these 54 ...
... beautiful trochaics , By the hero's armed fhades Glittering through the gloomy glades , By the youths that dy'd for love Wand'ring in the myrtle grove ; • Ver . 480 . Thefe These images are picturefque and appropri- ated ; and these 54 ...
Page 58
... be a trivial and puerile conceit . The death of Orpheus is expreffed with a beautiful brevity and abruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode ; Hark ! Hark ! Hamus refounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah 58 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... be a trivial and puerile conceit . The death of Orpheus is expreffed with a beautiful brevity and abruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode ; Hark ! Hark ! Hamus refounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah 58 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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