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... seem , on the spot , and worthy the hand of Paul Brill , is by no means excelled by the foregoing . Qua nudo Rofamonda humilis fub culmine tecti Marginis obfcuri fervat inane decus , Rara intermiffæ circum veftigia molis , Et fola in ...
... seem , on the spot , and worthy the hand of Paul Brill , is by no means excelled by the foregoing . Qua nudo Rofamonda humilis fub culmine tecti Marginis obfcuri fervat inane decus , Rara intermiffæ circum veftigia molis , Et fola in ...
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... seems was of opinion , that defcrip- tive poetry is a compofition as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces : and I know many other perfons that think meanly of it .. I will not prefume to fay it is equal , either in dignity E dignity or ...
... seems was of opinion , that defcrip- tive poetry is a compofition as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces : and I know many other perfons that think meanly of it .. I will not prefume to fay it is equal , either in dignity E dignity or ...
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... seems he was difficult to be pleafed , and would make the lad correct them again and again . When at last he approved them , he took great pleasure in perufing them , and would fay , " these are good RHYMES . " Thefe - These early ...
... seems he was difficult to be pleafed , and would make the lad correct them again and again . When at last he approved them , he took great pleasure in perufing them , and would fay , " these are good RHYMES . " Thefe - These early ...
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... of * See the Adventurer , No. 63 , where other borrowed paffages are pointed out , particularly from Pafcal , Charron , and Woolefton . which POPE seems to have thought of , when he which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 95 Happily to fteer ...
... of * See the Adventurer , No. 63 , where other borrowed paffages are pointed out , particularly from Pafcal , Charron , and Woolefton . which POPE seems to have thought of , when he which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 95 Happily to fteer ...
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Joseph Warton. which POPE seems to have thought of , when he wrote his verfes , to the memory of an un- fortunate lady . Jonfon begins his elegy , What gentle ghoft , befprent with April dew , Hayles me fo folemnly to yonder yew ? And ...
Joseph Warton. which POPE seems to have thought of , when he wrote his verfes , to the memory of an un- fortunate lady . Jonfon begins his elegy , What gentle ghoft , befprent with April dew , Hayles me fo folemnly to yonder yew ? And ...
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