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... NATURE ACCORDA L'UN ET L'AUTRE , ? LABORIEUX , SEVERE , PRECIS , PUR , HAR- MONIEUX , IL DEVINT , ENFIN , LE POETE DE LA RAISON . " OUR English poets may , I think , be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the firft clafs ...
... NATURE ACCORDA L'UN ET L'AUTRE , ? LABORIEUX , SEVERE , PRECIS , PUR , HAR- MONIEUX , IL DEVINT , ENFIN , LE POETE DE LA RAISON . " OUR English poets may , I think , be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the firft clafs ...
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... natural . This perhaps may be one reafon , among others , why we have never yet feen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing ...
... natural . This perhaps may be one reafon , among others , why we have never yet feen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing ...
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... nature . The figs and the honey , which he affigns as a reward to a vic- torious fhepherd , were in themselves exquifite , and are therefore affigned with great proprie- ty : and the beauties of that luxurious land- scape fo richly and ...
... nature . The figs and the honey , which he affigns as a reward to a vic- torious fhepherd , were in themselves exquifite , and are therefore affigned with great proprie- ty : and the beauties of that luxurious land- scape fo richly and ...
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... , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and ufeless circumlocutions . 2 See See nature haftes her earlieft wreaths to bring , With AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
... , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and ufeless circumlocutions . 2 See See nature haftes her earlieft wreaths to bring , With AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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... nature than profe . PoE has been happy in introducing the following circumstance : the prophet fays , " The parched ground shall " become a pool ; " Our author expreffes this idea by faying , that the shepherd , fhall START amid the ...
... nature than profe . PoE has been happy in introducing the following circumstance : the prophet fays , " The parched ground shall " become a pool ; " Our author expreffes this idea by faying , that the shepherd , fhall START amid the ...
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