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... descriptions and fentiments are trite and common . THAT the defign of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the gol- den age , is an empty notion , which , though supported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think ...
... descriptions and fentiments are trite and common . THAT the defign of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the gol- den age , is an empty notion , which , though supported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think ...
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... descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla novo fpumantia ...
... descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla novo fpumantia ...
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... the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd , as he lies reclin'd With half - fhut eyes + . * Summer , ver . 485. et feq . + Summer , ver . 299 . But But the novelty and nature we admire in the descriptions AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 45.
... the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd , as he lies reclin'd With half - fhut eyes + . * Summer , ver . 485. et feq . + Summer , ver . 299 . But But the novelty and nature we admire in the descriptions AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 45.
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Joseph Warton. But the novelty and nature we admire in the descriptions of Thomson are by no means his only excellencies ; he is equally to be praised , for impreffing on our minds the effects , which the fcene delineated would have on ...
Joseph Warton. But the novelty and nature we admire in the descriptions of Thomson are by no means his only excellencies ; he is equally to be praised , for impreffing on our minds the effects , which the fcene delineated would have on ...
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... John Dennis , or fome hero of the Dunciad , had been here attempting to travefty this description of the • Milton's Il Penferofo . E 4 reftora- 1 restoration of Eurydice to life . It is obferv- able AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 55.
... John Dennis , or fome hero of the Dunciad , had been here attempting to travefty this description of the • Milton's Il Penferofo . E 4 reftora- 1 restoration of Eurydice to life . It is obferv- able AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 55.
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