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Page ix
... drawn from notions , " and thofe from guess . " What fhall we fay of this paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas ” of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ...
... drawn from notions , " and thofe from guess . " What fhall we fay of this paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas ” of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ...
Page 21
... drawn , it should 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 ...
... drawn , it should 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 ...
Page 55
... Draw iron tears down Pluto's cheek And make hell grant what love did seek . But the numbers that conclude this stanza are of fo burlesque and ridiculous a kind , and have fo much the air of a drinking fong at a county election , that ...
... Draw iron tears down Pluto's cheek And make hell grant what love did seek . But the numbers that conclude this stanza are of fo burlesque and ridiculous a kind , and have fo much the air of a drinking fong at a county election , that ...
Page 72
... drawn from the fituation of the principal perfonage of the fable . Nay Sophocles hath artfully found a method of making thofe poetical defcriptions , with which the chorufes of the ancients abound , carry on the chief defign of the ...
... drawn from the fituation of the principal perfonage of the fable . Nay Sophocles hath artfully found a method of making thofe poetical defcriptions , with which the chorufes of the ancients abound , carry on the chief defign of the ...
Page 117
... temper of the brain makes this difference , that in fome it retains the characters drawn on it like mar- ble , in others like freeftone , and in others 13 little little better than fand , I fhall not here en- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 117.
... temper of the brain makes this difference , that in fome it retains the characters drawn on it like mar- ble , in others like freeftone , and in others 13 little little better than fand , I fhall not here en- AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 117.
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