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Page 14
Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
Nor must I omit that affecting image in Spenser , who ever excels in the pathetic , And him befides there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe , whofe life away did pass , All wallow'd in his own , yet lukewarm , blood , That from his ...
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THE tale of Sigifinonda and Guifcardo is heightened with many new and affecting touches by Dryden . I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of ...
THE tale of Sigifinonda and Guifcardo is heightened with many new and affecting touches by Dryden . I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of ...
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And yet , Fontenelle , whom the French accufe of introducing the abrupt , affected style , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quĉ nimium corripientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft ...
And yet , Fontenelle , whom the French accufe of introducing the abrupt , affected style , is frequently obfcure . " Non minus autem cavenda erit , fays Quintilian , quĉ nimium corripientes omnia fequitur , obfcuritas : fatiufque eft ...
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Now if there are ftill to be found among mankind , fuch as even in the midst of these wants feem not ashamed to affect a right of independency , and deny themfelves to be by nature fociable ; where would their fhame have been ...
Now if there are ftill to be found among mankind , fuch as even in the midst of these wants feem not ashamed to affect a right of independency , and deny themfelves to be by nature fociable ; where would their fhame have been ...
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The priest who attended him in his last moments , afked him if he was not affected with the description he gave him of the joys of heaven ? By no means , answered the incorrigible bard , I defire to hear no more of them , if you cannot ...
The priest who attended him in his last moments , afked him if he was not affected with the description he gave him of the joys of heaven ? By no means , answered the incorrigible bard , I defire to hear no more of them , if you cannot ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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