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... nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring - are lines , which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious ad- dition of circumstances and adjuncts is what renders ...
... nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring - are lines , which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious ad- dition of circumstances and adjuncts is what renders ...
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... nature in these words ; for this ESSAY , tho ' on a beaten fubject , abounds in many new remarks , and original rules , as well as in many happy and beautiful il- lustrations , and applications , of the old ones . We are indeed amazed ...
... nature in these words ; for this ESSAY , tho ' on a beaten fubject , abounds in many new remarks , and original rules , as well as in many happy and beautiful il- lustrations , and applications , of the old ones . We are indeed amazed ...
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... nature still , but nature methodiz'd ; Nature , like liberty , is but reftrain'd By the fame laws which first herself ordain'd * . THE precepts of the art of poesy were posterior to practice ; the rules of the Epopea were all drawn from ...
... nature still , but nature methodiz'd ; Nature , like liberty , is but reftrain'd By the fame laws which first herself ordain'd * . THE precepts of the art of poesy were posterior to practice ; the rules of the Epopea were all drawn from ...
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