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To fay that Amadis and Sir Triftan have a claffical foundation , may at firft fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
To fay that Amadis and Sir Triftan have a claffical foundation , may at firft fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
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Dry forrow in his stupid eyes appears , For wanting nourishment , he wanted tears : His eye - balls in their hollow fockets fink , Bereft of fleep he loaths his meat and drink ; He withers at his heart , and looks as wan , As the pale ...
Dry forrow in his stupid eyes appears , For wanting nourishment , he wanted tears : His eye - balls in their hollow fockets fink , Bereft of fleep he loaths his meat and drink ; He withers at his heart , and looks as wan , As the pale ...
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I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL .
I fhall felect only the following picture of Sigifmonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noife , Such as the Majefty of grief deftroys : VOL .
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By that ftrange fatality which feems to difqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticifm he has given , of the reft , in his ...
By that ftrange fatality which feems to difqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticifm he has given , of the reft , in his ...
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The peft a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rifing fnake appears , Guards her black front , and hiffes in her hairs : About the realm fhe walks her dreadful round When night with fable wings o'erfpreads the ground ...
The peft a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rifing fnake appears , Guards her black front , and hiffes in her hairs : About the realm fhe walks her dreadful round When night with fable wings o'erfpreads the ground ...
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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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