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... lively fancy in defcribing familiar life , tho ' not the higher fcenes of poetry . Here may be numbered , BUTLER , SWIFT , ROCHESTER , DONNE , Dorset , OLDHAM . In the fourth clafs , the mere verfifiers , however smooth and melli ...
... lively fancy in defcribing familiar life , tho ' not the higher fcenes of poetry . Here may be numbered , BUTLER , SWIFT , ROCHESTER , DONNE , Dorset , OLDHAM . In the fourth clafs , the mere verfifiers , however smooth and melli ...
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... lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumstance : the prophet fays , " The parched ground shall " become a pool ; " Our author expreffes this idea by faying , that the fhepherd ...
... lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumstance : the prophet fays , " The parched ground shall " become a pool ; " Our author expreffes this idea by faying , that the fhepherd ...
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... lively maintainer of many a paradox , is inclined to difpute the truth of * Ver . 69. + Carmina Quadragef . Oxon . 1748. pag . 3 . C 3 the the devastation imputed to William I , but for a AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 21 Round broken columns ...
... lively maintainer of many a paradox , is inclined to difpute the truth of * Ver . 69. + Carmina Quadragef . Oxon . 1748. pag . 3 . C 3 the the devastation imputed to William I , but for a AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 21 Round broken columns ...
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... lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly conftitutes true poetry . Anhiftorian or prose- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets before your eyes " the fhips of uncouth form ...
... lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly conftitutes true poetry . Anhiftorian or prose- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets before your eyes " the fhips of uncouth form ...
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... lively and diftinct , as these living figures painted by POPE , each of them with their proper infignia and attributes . ENVY her own fnakes fhall feel * , And PERSECUTION mourn his broken wheel ; There FACTION roar , REBELLION bite her ...
... lively and diftinct , as these living figures painted by POPE , each of them with their proper infignia and attributes . ENVY her own fnakes fhall feel * , And PERSECUTION mourn his broken wheel ; There FACTION roar , REBELLION bite her ...
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