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Page 19
... equal to many descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : - Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla ...
... equal to many descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : - Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla ...
Page 49
... as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not prefume to fay it is equal , either in E dignity dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 49.
... as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not prefume to fay it is equal , either in E dignity dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 49.
Page 52
... equal to the conclufion of that ftanza . The animating fong that Orpheus fung to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius What paffion cannot mufic raife and quell ! When Jubal ftruck the chorded fhell , His lift'ning brethren ftood around ...
... equal to the conclufion of that ftanza . The animating fong that Orpheus fung to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius What paffion cannot mufic raife and quell ! When Jubal ftruck the chorded fhell , His lift'ning brethren ftood around ...
Page 53
... equal the force and fpirit of what Dryden afcribes to the fong of his Grecian artift ; for when Timotheus cries out RE- VENGE , raises the furies , and calls up to Alexander's view a troop of Grecian ghofts that were flain and left ...
... equal the force and fpirit of what Dryden afcribes to the fong of his Grecian artift ; for when Timotheus cries out RE- VENGE , raises the furies , and calls up to Alexander's view a troop of Grecian ghofts that were flain and left ...
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... equal merit , in the higher branches of his art . In his ode on the taking Namur , are inftances of the a * BOMBASTIC , of the PRO- SAIC , and of the PUERILE . And it is no fmall confirmation of the ruling paffion of this author , that ...
... equal merit , in the higher branches of his art . In his ode on the taking Namur , are inftances of the a * BOMBASTIC , of the PRO- SAIC , and of the PUERILE . And it is no fmall confirmation of the ruling paffion of this author , that ...
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