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Page 42
... strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his de- scriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth ...
... strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his de- scriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth ...
Page 85
... strong and mafculine fenfe , expreffed and enlivened by a train of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well preserved . Whe- ther these early productions of POPE , * Lib . ii . Inftit . Cap . 4. ad init . G 3 would would not have ...
... strong and mafculine fenfe , expreffed and enlivened by a train of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well preserved . Whe- ther these early productions of POPE , * Lib . ii . Inftit . Cap . 4. ad init . G 3 would would not have ...
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... strong impref- fions , that fo popular a performance might make on the minds of the audience , Lord Bolingbroke , in the midst of their violent applaufes , fent for Booth , who played Cato , one night , into his box , between the acts ...
... strong impref- fions , that fo popular a performance might make on the minds of the audience , Lord Bolingbroke , in the midst of their violent applaufes , fent for Booth , who played Cato , one night , into his box , between the acts ...
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