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Page 14
... lately received ; and from which the fol- lowing paffage , gradually unfolding the fin- gular beauties of this prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE THE prophet ...
... lately received ; and from which the fol- lowing paffage , gradually unfolding the fin- gular beauties of this prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE THE prophet ...
Page 24
... lately made near Windfor - lodge , by the duke of Cumberland , particularly the magnificent lake and cafcade , highly deferve to be celebrated by fome future POPE ; and would have contributed not a little to the beauty of the poem now ...
... lately made near Windfor - lodge , by the duke of Cumberland , particularly the magnificent lake and cafcade , highly deferve to be celebrated by fome future POPE ; and would have contributed not a little to the beauty of the poem now ...
Page 39
... lately met with fuitable regard . Shall I of- fend any rational admirer of POPE by re- marking , that thefe juvenile defcriptive poems of Milton , as well as his latin elegies , are of a strain far more exalted than any the former ...
... lately met with fuitable regard . Shall I of- fend any rational admirer of POPE by re- marking , that thefe juvenile defcriptive poems of Milton , as well as his latin elegies , are of a strain far more exalted than any the former ...
Page 59
... lately feen a manufcript ode , entitled , On the Use and Abuse of Poetry , " in which Orpheus is confidered in another , and a higher light , according to ancient mytho- logy , as the firft legiflator and civilizer of mankind . I shall ...
... lately feen a manufcript ode , entitled , On the Use and Abuse of Poetry , " in which Orpheus is confidered in another , and a higher light , according to ancient mytho- logy , as the firft legiflator and civilizer of mankind . I shall ...
Page 68
... lately feen two or three lyric pieces , fuperiour to any he has * left us ; I mean an Ode on Lyric Poetry , and another to lord Huntingdon , by Dr. Aken- fide ; and a Chorus of British Bards , by Mr. Gilbert West , at the end of the ...
... lately feen two or three lyric pieces , fuperiour to any he has * left us ; I mean an Ode on Lyric Poetry , and another to lord Huntingdon , by Dr. Aken- fide ; and a Chorus of British Bards , by Mr. Gilbert West , at the end of the ...
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