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... sometimes invited and sometimes forsaken , fatigues his fancy and ransacks his memory for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope or the gloomi- ness of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers ...
... sometimes invited and sometimes forsaken , fatigues his fancy and ransacks his memory for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope or the gloomi- ness of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers ...
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... sometimes open to objection . It is the common practice of our poets to end the second line with a weak or grave syllable : Together o'er the Alps methinks we fly , Fir'd with ideas of fair Italy . POPE , Epistle to Jervas . Dryden ...
... sometimes open to objection . It is the common practice of our poets to end the second line with a weak or grave syllable : Together o'er the Alps methinks we fly , Fir'd with ideas of fair Italy . POPE , Epistle to Jervas . Dryden ...
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... sometimes too , of those who have it , and , like a fierce and outrageous torrent , bear down all opposition before them . " He then condemns the neglect of poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis ...
... sometimes too , of those who have it , and , like a fierce and outrageous torrent , bear down all opposition before them . " He then condemns the neglect of poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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