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His death was occasioned by a singular accident * he he paid a visit on foot with his friend Sprat. * There is something remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets .
His death was occasioned by a singular accident * he he paid a visit on foot with his friend Sprat. * There is something remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets .
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On their return home they mistook their way , obliged to pass the whole night exposed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a severe cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . and were The verses on Silence are a ...
On their return home they mistook their way , obliged to pass the whole night exposed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a severe cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . and were The verses on Silence are a ...
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In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city shower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the same species with the piece before ...
In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city shower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the same species with the piece before ...
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From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempefts sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep * . I quote these lines as an example of energy of ftile , and of Pope's manner of ...
From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempefts sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep * . I quote these lines as an example of energy of ftile , and of Pope's manner of ...
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The vegetables by their death , sustain the animals ; and the animal bodies dissolved , enrich the earth , and raise again the vegetable world . The numerous insects are reduced by the superior kinds of birds and beasts : And these ...
The vegetables by their death , sustain the animals ; and the animal bodies dissolved , enrich the earth , and raise again the vegetable world . The numerous insects are reduced by the superior kinds of birds and beasts : And these ...
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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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