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Page viii
... poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this unadorned manner to pe- ruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your ...
... poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this unadorned manner to pe- ruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical spirit , all your ...
Page 262
... poetical use is made of it , What though no facred earth allow thee room , Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Yet fhall thy grave with rifing flowers be drest , And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast ; There fhall the ...
... poetical use is made of it , What though no facred earth allow thee room , Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Yet fhall thy grave with rifing flowers be drest , And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast ; There fhall the ...
Page 333
... poetical use hath POPE here made of the opinions of the myftics and quietifts : how would Fenelon have been delighted with these lines ! True poetry , after all , cannot well fubfift , at leaft is never fo ftriking , without a tincture ...
... poetical use hath POPE here made of the opinions of the myftics and quietifts : how would Fenelon have been delighted with these lines ! True poetry , after all , cannot well fubfift , at leaft is never fo ftriking , without a tincture ...
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