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Page 73
... hand , the choruses of So- phocles never defert the fubject of each particular drama , and all their sentiments and reflections are drawn from the fituation of the principal perfonage of the fable . Nay Sophocles hath artfully found a ...
... hand , the choruses of So- phocles never defert the fubject of each particular drama , and all their sentiments and reflections are drawn from the fituation of the principal perfonage of the fable . Nay Sophocles hath artfully found a ...
Page 261
... hands thy decent limbs compos'd , By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd , By ftrangers honour'd , and by ftrangers mourn'd ! The force of the repetition of the signin- cant epithet foreign , need not be pointed • Something like that ...
... hands thy decent limbs compos'd , By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd , By ftrangers honour'd , and by ftrangers mourn'd ! The force of the repetition of the signin- cant epithet foreign , need not be pointed • Something like that ...
Page 391
... hand . - With flacken'd wings , While now the folemn concert breathes around , Incumbent o'er the fceptre of his lord Sleeps the ftern eagle ; by the number'd notes Poffefs'd ; and fatiate with the melting tone ; Sovereign of birds ...
... hand . - With flacken'd wings , While now the folemn concert breathes around , Incumbent o'er the fceptre of his lord Sleeps the ftern eagle ; by the number'd notes Poffefs'd ; and fatiate with the melting tone ; Sovereign of birds ...
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