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Page 42
In the lines on a lady weeping , you might expect a touching picture of beauty in distress ; you will be disappointed . Wit on the prefent occafion is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her eye is faid to resemble Phaeton fo ...
In the lines on a lady weeping , you might expect a touching picture of beauty in distress ; you will be disappointed . Wit on the prefent occafion is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her eye is faid to resemble Phaeton fo ...
Page 52
In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a fubject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been scrutinized in fo many late writings , that it is ...
In this alfo confifts the chief beauty of Gay's Trivia , a fubject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been scrutinized in fo many late writings , that it is ...
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If any beauty in this Effay be uncommonly tranfcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few inftances , and thofe pardonable , has occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
If any beauty in this Effay be uncommonly tranfcendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few inftances , and thofe pardonable , has occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much ...
Page 61
... that appearances of evil , both moral and natural , are alfo neceffary and unavoidable ; That the feeming defects and blemishes in the universe , confpire to its general beauty ; That as all parts in an animal are not eyes , and as ...
... that appearances of evil , both moral and natural , are alfo neceffary and unavoidable ; That the feeming defects and blemishes in the universe , confpire to its general beauty ; That as all parts in an animal are not eyes , and as ...
Page 88
Diff'rent minds Incline to diff'rent objects : one pursues , The vaft alone , the wonderful , the wild ; Another fighs for harmony , and grace , And gentleft beauty . Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ...
Diff'rent minds Incline to diff'rent objects : one pursues , The vaft alone , the wonderful , the wild ; Another fighs for harmony , and grace , And gentleft beauty . Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ...
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