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Page 164
... tell the King ' tis given him to destroy Declare ev'n now The lofty walls of wide - extended Troy ; tow'rs For now no more the Gods with Fate contend ; At Juno's suit the heavenly factions end . Destruction hovers o'er yon devoted wall ...
... tell the King ' tis given him to destroy Declare ev'n now The lofty walls of wide - extended Troy ; tow'rs For now no more the Gods with Fate contend ; At Juno's suit the heavenly factions end . Destruction hovers o'er yon devoted wall ...
Page 216
... tell stories of heroes ; and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural , but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ...
... tell stories of heroes ; and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural , but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ...
Page 389
... tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball , is useless and puerile . Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself . His epithet " buxom health " is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word . Gray thought his ...
... tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball , is useless and puerile . Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself . His epithet " buxom health " is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word . Gray thought his ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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