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... NATURE ACCORDA L'UN ET L'AUTRE , LABORIEUX , SEVERE , PRECIS , PUR , HAR- MONIEUX , IL DEVINT , ENFIN , LE POETÉ DE LA RAISON . " OUR English poets may , I think , be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the firft clafs ...
... NATURE ACCORDA L'UN ET L'AUTRE , LABORIEUX , SEVERE , PRECIS , PUR , HAR- MONIEUX , IL DEVINT , ENFIN , LE POETÉ DE LA RAISON . " OUR English poets may , I think , be difpofed in four different claffes and degrees . In the firft clafs ...
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... natural . This perhaps may be one reason , among others , why we have never yet seen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing ...
... natural . This perhaps may be one reason , among others , why we have never yet seen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing ...
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Joseph Warton. affemblages of pleasing objects , which are not to be found in nature . The figs and the honey , which he affigns * as a reward to a vic- torious fhepherd , were in themselves exquifite , and are therefore affigned with ...
Joseph Warton. affemblages of pleasing objects , which are not to be found in nature . The figs and the honey , which he affigns * as a reward to a vic- torious fhepherd , were in themselves exquifite , and are therefore affigned with ...
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... and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and useless circumlocutions . See See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II } ...
... and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and useless circumlocutions . See See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II } ...
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... 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 , fball START amid the ...
... 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 , fball START amid the ...
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