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... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine * , with more home- felt pleasure , than POPE † could poffibly ex- perience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any ...
... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine * , with more home- felt pleasure , than POPE † could poffibly ex- perience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any ...
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... must do a noble English poet the juftice to observe , that it is this parti- cular art that is the very diftinguishing excel- lence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which , the defcriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ...
... must do a noble English poet the juftice to observe , that it is this parti- cular art that is the very diftinguishing excel- lence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which , the defcriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ...
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... must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive poem extant , I mean that of Lucretius . WE are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of POPE . He used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a ...
... must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive poem extant , I mean that of Lucretius . WE are next to speak of the LYRIC pieces of POPE . He used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a ...
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... must refer the reader to the characters of Alcæus and of Milton in the two firft , and to the ftanza of Mr. Weft's ode , on the barons procuring magna charta , which I fhall infert at length , On yonder plain , Along whose willow ...
... must refer the reader to the characters of Alcæus and of Milton in the two firft , and to the ftanza of Mr. Weft's ode , on the barons procuring magna charta , which I fhall infert at length , On yonder plain , Along whose willow ...
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... MUST BE UNIFORM AND ALIKE ; the first copier may be perhaps entitled to the praise of priority , but a fucceeding one ought not certainly to be condemned for plagiarism . De- THESE general obfervations however true , do not , I think ...
... MUST BE UNIFORM AND ALIKE ; the first copier may be perhaps entitled to the praise of priority , but a fucceeding one ought not certainly to be condemned for plagiarism . De- THESE general obfervations however true , do not , I think ...
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