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If we pass on from defcriptions of perfons to those of things , we fhall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft ...
If we pass on from defcriptions of perfons to those of things , we fhall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joylefs ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft ...
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I fhall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : " It is * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious stories . a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
I fhall confine myself to point out only two paffages , which relate the two appearances of this formidable figure : " It is * This is one of Boccace's moft ferious stories . a curious thing to fee at the head of an edition of Boccace's ...
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... to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . “ I wrote things , faid POPE , I am afhamed to * Pag .
... to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume * , to which the following anecdote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . “ I wrote things , faid POPE , I am afhamed to * Pag .
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Which of the French writers has produced any thing at once fo gallant and fo lofty ? The English verfification was much fmoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his numbers from Fairfax's Taffo ...
Which of the French writers has produced any thing at once fo gallant and fo lofty ? The English verfification was much fmoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his numbers from Fairfax's Taffo ...
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... run over by a hackney - coach , and killed on the spot . These three facts are from Mr. Spence : though OrWAY'S death has been differently related . thing ; thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 47.
... run over by a hackney - coach , and killed on the spot . These three facts are from Mr. Spence : though OrWAY'S death has been differently related . thing ; thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 47.
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