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Page 43
... same time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening fhower of vegetable down Amufive floats † . In what other poet , do we find the filence and expectation that precedes an April shower infifted on ...
... same time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening fhower of vegetable down Amufive floats † . In what other poet , do we find the filence and expectation that precedes an April shower infifted on ...
Page 142
... same sort of subject , ap- pears to be more full and striking . " Beneath the mountain's foot , the rocky country rifes into hills , a proper bafis of the ponderous mass above : where huge embodied rocks lie piled on one another , and ...
... same sort of subject , ap- pears to be more full and striking . " Beneath the mountain's foot , the rocky country rifes into hills , a proper bafis of the ponderous mass above : where huge embodied rocks lie piled on one another , and ...
Page 264
... same na- ture ; and perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next compofition to the Iliad , in point of originality and fublimity . And with regard to the Pathetic , let this tale ftand a teftimony of his abilities ; for my own part , I ...
... same na- ture ; and perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next compofition to the Iliad , in point of originality and fublimity . And with regard to the Pathetic , let this tale ftand a teftimony of his abilities ; for my own part , I ...
Page 316
... same time , to point out what paffages are borrow- ed , and how much improved , from the ori- ginal Letters . From this analyfis , her ftruggles and conflicts , between duty and pleasure , between penitence and paffion , will more amply ...
... same time , to point out what paffages are borrow- ed , and how much improved , from the ori- ginal Letters . From this analyfis , her ftruggles and conflicts , between duty and pleasure , between penitence and paffion , will more amply ...
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