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His death was occafioned by a fingular accident * ; he * There is fomething remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY he paid a visit on foot with his friend Sprat 46 ESSAY ON THE ...
His death was occafioned by a fingular accident * ; he * There is fomething remarkable in the circumstances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY he paid a visit on foot with his friend Sprat 46 ESSAY ON THE ...
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On their return home they mistook their way , and were obliged to pass the whole night expofed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a fevere cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . THE Verfes on Silence are a ...
On their return home they mistook their way , and were obliged to pass the whole night expofed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a fevere cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . THE Verfes 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 fhower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before ...
In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city fhower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the fame fpecies with the piece before ...
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From burning funs when livid deaths defcend , 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 funs when livid deaths defcend , 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 , fuftain the animals ; and the animal bodies diffolved , enrich the earth , and raise again the vegetable world . The numerous infects are reduced by the superior kinds of birds and beafts : And these ...
The vegetables by their death , fuftain the animals ; and the animal bodies diffolved , enrich the earth , and raise again the vegetable world . The numerous infects are reduced by the superior kinds of birds and beafts : 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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