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... Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whe- ther by any process of critical chy- mistry , you can lower and reduce them to the tameness of profe . You will find that they will appear like Ulyffes in his disguise of rags ...
... Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whe- ther by any process of critical chy- mistry , you can lower and reduce them to the tameness of profe . You will find that they will appear like Ulyffes in his disguise of rags ...
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... loft their own . With their liberty , they loft not only their force of eloquence , but even their style and language itself . The poets who afterwards arofe among them , were mere unnatural and forced plants . Their Two most finished ...
... loft their own . With their liberty , they loft not only their force of eloquence , but even their style and language itself . The poets who afterwards arofe among them , were mere unnatural and forced plants . Their Two most finished ...
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... loft ! And here our poet has made a judi cious use of that celebrated fiction of Ariosto ; that all things loft on earth are treasured in the moon . How fuch a fic- tion can properly have place in an epic poem , it becomes the defenders ...
... loft ! And here our poet has made a judi cious use of that celebrated fiction of Ariosto ; that all things loft on earth are treasured in the moon . How fuch a fic- tion can properly have place in an epic poem , it becomes the defenders ...
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