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... laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic ...
... laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic ...
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... laft Eclogues of Virgil are indifputable proofs of true genius , and power of fancy . The influence of war on the tran- quility of rural life , rendered the subject of the first new , and interefting : its compo- fition is truly ...
... laft Eclogues of Virgil are indifputable proofs of true genius , and power of fancy . The influence of war on the tran- quility of rural life , rendered the subject of the first new , and interefting : its compo- fition is truly ...
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... laft , was with justice con- vinced , that the Scriptures of God contained not only the pureft precepts of morality , but the most elevated and fublime ftrokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can ...
... laft , was with justice con- vinced , that the Scriptures of God contained not only the pureft precepts of morality , but the most elevated and fublime ftrokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can ...
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... laft hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who shook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and deftroyed it's cities ? They reproach him with the loss of the com- mon rite of fepulture , which was defervedly ...
... laft hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who shook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and deftroyed it's cities ? They reproach him with the loss of the com- mon rite of fepulture , which was defervedly ...
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... laft adieu , Jamque vale ! And adds , that she is now furrounded with a vaft darkness , " feror ingenti circumdata " nocte , " and in vain ftretching out her feeble arms towards him , Invalidafque tibi tendens , heu ! non tua , palmas ...
... laft adieu , Jamque vale ! And adds , that she is now furrounded with a vaft darkness , " feror ingenti circumdata " nocte , " and in vain ftretching out her feeble arms towards him , Invalidafque tibi tendens , heu ! non tua , palmas ...
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