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Page 49
... second , printed at Oxford 1748 , from whence this is transcribed , ( page 14 , ) contain many copies of exquifite descriptive poetry , in a genuine claffical ftyle . See parti- cularly The Rivers , page 4. The Morning , page 12. The ...
... second , printed at Oxford 1748 , from whence this is transcribed , ( page 14 , ) contain many copies of exquifite descriptive poetry , in a genuine claffical ftyle . See parti- cularly The Rivers , page 4. The Morning , page 12. The ...
Page 163
... second verse of a couplet before the first ; that he declared it was one of the grand se- crets of poetry to give , by this means , a greater energy and meaning to his verfes that he advised Racine to follow the fame method , and faid ...
... second verse of a couplet before the first ; that he declared it was one of the grand se- crets of poetry to give , by this means , a greater energy and meaning to his verfes that he advised Racine to follow the fame method , and faid ...
Page 294
... second poem , now remaining , in the French lan- guage , was entitled , The Romance of Alex- ander the Great . It was the confederated work of four authors , famous in their time . Lambert le Court , and Alexander of Paris , fung the ...
... second poem , now remaining , in the French lan- guage , was entitled , The Romance of Alex- ander the Great . It was the confederated work of four authors , famous in their time . Lambert le Court , and Alexander of Paris , fung the ...
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