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Page 78
... design in this Effay , to expatiate into fuch occafional dif quifitions , as naturally arise from the fub- ject ; it has however kept us too long from furveying a valuable literary curiofity , I mean the earliest production of POPE ...
... design in this Effay , to expatiate into fuch occafional dif quifitions , as naturally arise from the fub- ject ; it has however kept us too long from furveying a valuable literary curiofity , I mean the earliest production of POPE ...
Page 102
... design , in his epistle to the Pifones , and that altho ' the connexions are delicately fine , and al- most imperceptible , like the secret hinges of a well - wrought box , yet they artfully and closely unite each part together , and ...
... design , in his epistle to the Pifones , and that altho ' the connexions are delicately fine , and al- most imperceptible , like the secret hinges of a well - wrought box , yet they artfully and closely unite each part together , and ...
Page 155
... design'd Some bright idea of the mafter's mind , When a new world leaps out at his command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours foften and unite , And fweetly melt into juft fhade and light ; * Of ENGLISH VERSE ...
... design'd Some bright idea of the mafter's mind , When a new world leaps out at his command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours foften and unite , And fweetly melt into juft fhade and light ; * Of ENGLISH VERSE ...
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