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... berance of Dryden . I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate friend of POPE , that he had once laid a defign of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS .
... berance of Dryden . I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate friend of POPE , that he had once laid a defign of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS .
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Joseph Warton. } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention ...
Joseph Warton. } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention ...
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... fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : terror being a stronger fen- fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth ...
... fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : terror being a stronger fen- fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth ...
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... fubject and of the rest of the ode , that , " she wooed the air , to hide her guilty front with innocent fnow , " And on her naked fhame + , Pollute with finful blame , The faintly veil of maiden white to throw , Confounded that her ...
... fubject and of the rest of the ode , that , " she wooed the air , to hide her guilty front with innocent fnow , " And on her naked fhame + , Pollute with finful blame , The faintly veil of maiden white to throw , Confounded that her ...
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... fubject are common writers more confufed and unmeaning , than in their defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courfes are feldom accu- rately marked . Examine the ...
... fubject are common writers more confufed and unmeaning , than in their defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courfes are feldom accu- rately marked . Examine the ...
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