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... most early , as well as most exquifite pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penferofo ; if we may ex- cept his Ode on the Nativity of Christ , which is indeed prior in the order of time , and in which a penetrating critic might ...
... most early , as well as most exquifite pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penferofo ; if we may ex- cept his Ode on the Nativity of Christ , which is indeed prior in the order of time , and in which a penetrating critic might ...
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... most tender fentiments , and the most sudden and violent turns of paffion to be difplayed . Ovid may , perhaps , be blamed for a sameness of subjects , in these epiftles of his heroines ; whose distresses are almost all occafioned by ...
... most tender fentiments , and the most sudden and violent turns of paffion to be difplayed . Ovid may , perhaps , be blamed for a sameness of subjects , in these epiftles of his heroines ; whose distresses are almost all occafioned by ...
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... most closely related to the subject . For what in truth is the fubject of this poem : I mean , if we confider it in ... most plaintive tenderness and most compaffionate regret : till by degrees he is once more roufed to thoughts of ...
... most closely related to the subject . For what in truth is the fubject of this poem : I mean , if we confider it in ... most plaintive tenderness and most compaffionate regret : till by degrees he is once more roufed to thoughts of ...
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