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... appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling ? SWIFT's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular than Akenfide's noble ode to lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your sprightly fatires , my good ...
... appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling ? SWIFT's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular than Akenfide's noble ode to lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your sprightly fatires , my good ...
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... appear like Ulyffes in his dif guife of rags , ftill a hero , tho ' lodged in the cottage of the herdfman Eumæus . THE Sublime and the Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poefy . What is there tranfcendently Sublime or ...
... appear like Ulyffes in his dif guife of rags , ftill a hero , tho ' lodged in the cottage of the herdfman Eumæus . THE Sublime and the Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poefy . What is there tranfcendently Sublime or ...
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... puerile conceit . Αιθε γενοίμαν Α βομβευσα μελισσα , κι ἐς τεον ανρον ἐκοιμαν , Τον κισσον διαδύς , και ταν πλεριν & τυ πυκασδη . Idyll . iii . 12 . + Paft . ii . 45 . Say Say , Daphnis , fay in what glad foil appears ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... puerile conceit . Αιθε γενοίμαν Α βομβευσα μελισσα , κι ἐς τεον ανρον ἐκοιμαν , Τον κισσον διαδύς , και ταν πλεριν & τυ πυκασδη . Idyll . iii . 12 . + Paft . ii . 45 . Say Say , Daphnis , fay in what glad foil appears ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... appear lefs surprising , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding ... appears ...
... appear lefs surprising , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding ... appears ...
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... appear- yet ance highly picturesque , His fea - green mantle waving with the wind f . The relievo upon his urn is ... appears ; The gulphy Lee his AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
... appear- yet ance highly picturesque , His fea - green mantle waving with the wind f . The relievo upon his urn is ... appears ; The gulphy Lee his AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 25.
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