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... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the fuppofed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the imagination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i ...
... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the fuppofed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the imagination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i ...
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... 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 , instead of ...
... 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 , instead of ...
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... mentioned the ruftic monuments and fimple epitaphs of the swains , the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of ...
... mentioned the ruftic monuments and fimple epitaphs of the swains , the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of ...
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... mentioned , The quail that clamours for his running mate ? Or the following natural image at the same time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening fhower of vegetable down Amufive floats † . In what ...
... mentioned , The quail that clamours for his running mate ? Or the following natural image at the same time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening fhower of vegetable down Amufive floats † . In what ...
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... mentioned ; Refounds the living furface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceafelefs hum To him who mufes through the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd , as he lies reclin'd With half - fhut eyes + . * Summer , ver . 485. et feq ...
... mentioned ; Refounds the living furface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceafelefs hum To him who mufes through the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd , as he lies reclin'd With half - fhut eyes + . * Summer , ver . 485. et feq ...
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