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... is new ! but this , I am afraid , is the cafe in the PASTORALS before us . The ideas of Theocritus , Vir- gil , and Spenfer , are indeed here exhibited in gil , 2 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS error and excellence, which alone fenders ...
... is new ! but this , I am afraid , is the cafe in the PASTORALS before us . The ideas of Theocritus , Vir- gil , and Spenfer , are indeed here exhibited in gil , 2 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS error and excellence, which alone fenders ...
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... ideas may justly be deemed a blemish in the PAS- TORALS of POPE : and propriety is certainly violated , when he couples Pactolus with Thames , and Windfor with Hybla . Com- plaints of immoderate heat , and wishes to be conveyed to ...
... ideas may justly be deemed a blemish in the PAS- TORALS of POPE : and propriety is certainly violated , when he couples Pactolus with Thames , and Windfor with Hybla . Com- plaints of immoderate heat , and wishes to be conveyed to ...
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... idea by faying , that the fhepherd , fball START amid the thirsty wild to hear New falls of water murmuring in his car † . A ftriking example of a fimilar beauty may be added from Thompfon . Melifander , in the Tragedy of AGAMEMNON ...
... idea by faying , that the fhepherd , fball START amid the thirsty wild to hear New falls of water murmuring in his car † . A ftriking example of a fimilar beauty may be added from Thompfon . Melifander , in the Tragedy of AGAMEMNON ...
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... ideas of Isaiah : the latter he has performed in many inftances ; but in none more strikingly than in the fol- lowing , which magnificently represents the Meffiah treading the wine - prefs in his anger , and which an impartial judge ...
... ideas of Isaiah : the latter he has performed in many inftances ; but in none more strikingly than in the fol- lowing , which magnificently represents the Meffiah treading the wine - prefs in his anger , and which an impartial judge ...
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... idea than POPE has here exhibited of the Conqueror , is given us of the fame prince , by that diligent enquirer into antiquity the Prefident Henault , in a paffage that contains fome curious parti- culars , characteristical of the ...
... idea than POPE has here exhibited of the Conqueror , is given us of the fame prince , by that diligent enquirer into antiquity the Prefident Henault , in a paffage that contains fome curious parti- culars , characteristical of the ...
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