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... last has expreffively painted the changeful refolu- tions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and- abrupt exclamations , of a difappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in ...
... last has expreffively painted the changeful refolu- tions , the wild wishes , the paffionate and- abrupt exclamations , of a difappointed and despairing lover . UPON the whole , the principal merit of the PASTORALS of POPE confifts , in ...
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... last quoted paffage , except perhaps in the third line ; first remarking that both authors are much indebted to Spenfert , and perhaps to Drayton . Rivers arife ! whether thou be the fon Of utmost Tweed , or Oofe , or gulphy Dun , Or ...
... last quoted paffage , except perhaps in the third line ; first remarking that both authors are much indebted to Spenfert , and perhaps to Drayton . Rivers arife ! whether thou be the fon Of utmost Tweed , or Oofe , or gulphy Dun , Or ...
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... last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , had been particular and pic- turesque ...
... last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , had been particular and pic- turesque ...
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... 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 , Flaccus , for that of Apollonius is of a dif- 52 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... 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 , Flaccus , for that of Apollonius is of a dif- 52 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... last adieu to the island , 1508 . One may here observe by the way , that the acients thought bodily pains , and wounds , & c . proper objects to be repre- fented on the stage . See alfo the Trachiniæ of Sophocles , and the lamentations ...
... last adieu to the island , 1508 . One may here observe by the way , that the acients thought bodily pains , and wounds , & c . proper objects to be repre- fented on the stage . See alfo the Trachiniæ of Sophocles , and the lamentations ...
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