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Page iii
... subjects of criticism , that will naturally arise in the course of fuch an enquiry . No love of fingula- rity , no affectation of paradoxical opi- nions , gave rife to the following work . A 2 I revere I revere the memory of Pore ...
... subjects of criticism , that will naturally arise in the course of fuch an enquiry . No love of fingula- rity , no affectation of paradoxical opi- nions , gave rife to the following work . A 2 I revere I revere the memory of Pore ...
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... subject of the first new , and interefting : its compo- fition is truly dramatic ; and the characters of of its two fhepherds are well fupported , and happily AND WRITINGS OF POPE . Say, Daphnis, fay in what glad foil appears ...
... subject of the first new , and interefting : its compo- fition is truly dramatic ; and the characters of of its two fhepherds are well fupported , and happily AND WRITINGS OF POPE . Say, Daphnis, fay in what glad foil appears ...
Page 53
... subject of the third . On hearing On hearing which , Each chief his fevenfold fhield difplay'd , And half unfheath'd the fhining blade ; Which effects of the fong , however lively , do not equal the force and fpirit of what Dryden ...
... subject of the third . On hearing On hearing which , Each chief his fevenfold fhield difplay'd , And half unfheath'd the fhining blade ; Which effects of the fong , however lively , do not equal the force and fpirit of what Dryden ...
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... subject of the pre- ceding one ; the defcription of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell , are elegantly tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily ...
... subject of the pre- ceding one ; the defcription of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell , are elegantly tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily ...
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... subjects , or fancy in his method of treating them . Metastasio is a much better lyric poet . When Boileau attempted an ode , he exhibited a glaring proof , of what will be more fully infifted on in the course of this Effay , that the ...
... subjects , or fancy in his method of treating them . Metastasio is a much better lyric poet . When Boileau attempted an ode , he exhibited a glaring proof , of what will be more fully infifted on in the course of this Effay , that the ...
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