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... taken particular and repeated pains , to fettle and adjust the opinion in queftion . He has more than once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic and fatiric pieces . -Neque enim coNCLUDERE VERSUM ...
... taken particular and repeated pains , to fettle and adjust the opinion in queftion . He has more than once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic and fatiric pieces . -Neque enim coNCLUDERE VERSUM ...
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... taken from the fourteenth chapter of Ifaiah , has been written by Dr. Lowth ; whofe Latin prelec tions on the inimitable poefy of the Hebrews , abounding in remarks entirely new , deli- vered in the pureft and moft expreffive lan- guage ...
... taken from the fourteenth chapter of Ifaiah , has been written by Dr. Lowth ; whofe Latin prelec tions on the inimitable poefy of the Hebrews , abounding in remarks entirely new , deli- vered in the pureft and moft expreffive lan- guage ...
Page 42
... piny mountains , and the gloomieft caverns . Innu- merable are the little circumstances in his defcriptions , totally unobserved by all his pre- deceffors . deceffors . What poet hath ever taken notice of the 42 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... piny mountains , and the gloomieft caverns . Innu- merable are the little circumstances in his defcriptions , totally unobserved by all his pre- deceffors . deceffors . What poet hath ever taken notice of the 42 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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Joseph Warton. deceffors . What poet hath ever taken notice of the leaf , that towards the end of autumn , Inceffant ruftles from the mournful grove * , Oft ftartling fuch as , ftudious , walk below , And flowly circles through the ...
Joseph Warton. deceffors . What poet hath ever taken notice of the leaf , that towards the end of autumn , Inceffant ruftles from the mournful grove * , Oft ftartling fuch as , ftudious , walk below , And flowly circles through the ...
Page 93
... The Works of Cardinal Bembo , and of Cafa , of Anni- bal Caro , and Taffo himself , are full of entire lines taken from Dante and Petrarch . 1 This modeft ftone , what few vain marbles can This AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 93 * ...
... The Works of Cardinal Bembo , and of Cafa , of Anni- bal Caro , and Taffo himself , are full of entire lines taken from Dante and Petrarch . 1 This modeft ftone , what few vain marbles can This AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 93 * ...
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