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To say that Amadis and Sir Tristan have a classical foundation , may at first fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
To say that Amadis and Sir Tristan have a classical foundation , may at first fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
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Dry sorrow in his stupid eyes appears , For wanting nourishment , he wanted tears : His eye - balls in their hollow sockets fink , Bereft of sleep he loaths his meat and drink ; He withers at his heart , and looks as wan , As the pale ...
Dry sorrow in his stupid eyes appears , For wanting nourishment , he wanted tears : His eye - balls in their hollow sockets fink , Bereft of sleep he loaths his meat and drink ; He withers at his heart , and looks as wan , As the pale ...
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I shall select only the following picture of Sigismonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noise , Such as the Majesty of grief destroys : VOL .
I shall select only the following picture of Sigismonda , as it has the fame attitude in which the appears in a famous piece of CORREGGIO . Mute , folemn forrow , free from female noise , Such as the Majesty of grief destroys : VOL .
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By that strange fatality which seems to disqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticism he has given , of the rest , in his ...
By that strange fatality which seems to disqualify authors from judging of their own works , he does not appear to have valued this piece , because he totally omits it in the enumeration and criticism he has given , of the rest , in his ...
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The pest a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears , Guards her black front , and hisses in her hairs : About the realm the walks her dreadful round When night with fable wings o'erspreads the ground ...
The pest a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rising snake appears , Guards her black front , and hisses in her hairs : About the realm the walks her dreadful round When night with fable wings o'erspreads the ground ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2010 |
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