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... the pitiless mariners had left him in that . dreadful folitude , I never heard A found so dismal as their parting oars ! * MESS . V. 23 . tv . 70 . ON On the other hand , the prophet has been fometimes 12 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... the pitiless mariners had left him in that . dreadful folitude , I never heard A found so dismal as their parting oars ! * MESS . V. 23 . tv . 70 . ON On the other hand , the prophet has been fometimes 12 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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Joseph Warton. On the other hand , the prophet has been fometimes particular , when POPE has been only general . " Lift up thine eyes round " about , and see ; all they gather themselves 66 I together , they come to thee : The ...
Joseph Warton. On the other hand , the prophet has been fometimes particular , when POPE has been only general . " Lift up thine eyes round " about , and see ; all they gather themselves 66 I together , they come to thee : The ...
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... 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 molis , Et fola in vacuo tramite porta labat : Sacræ olim ...
... 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 molis , Et fola in vacuo tramite porta labat : Sacræ olim ...
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... hand in an ode on St. Cecilia ; we find many defpicable rhapfodies , fo called , in Tonfon's Mifcellanies . We have there alfo preferved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear ...
... hand in an ode on St. Cecilia ; we find many defpicable rhapfodies , fo called , in Tonfon's Mifcellanies . We have there alfo preferved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear ...
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... hands . The reader doubtless obferves the fine effect of the repetition of the last line ; as well as the ftroke of nature , in making thefe rude hearers imagine fome god lay concealed in this first musician's inftrument . Flaccus ...
... hands . The reader doubtless obferves the fine effect of the repetition of the last line ; as well as the ftroke of nature , in making thefe rude hearers imagine fome god lay concealed in this first musician's inftrument . Flaccus ...
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