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... numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this un- adorned manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inverfions and tranfpo- fitions will not disguise and ...
... numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this un- adorned manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inverfions and tranfpo- fitions will not disguise and ...
Page 6
... numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong §§ . In the paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranf- lator Virgil , he has merited but little ap- plause . It may not be ...
... numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong §§ . In the paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranf- lator Virgil , he has merited but little ap- plause . It may not be ...
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... number of the skins of martens * " But to return . The story of Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is fcarcely a fingle incident in it , but what is borrowed from fome transformation of Ovid . The picture of a virtuous and learned ...
... number of the skins of martens * " But to return . The story of Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is fcarcely a fingle incident in it , but what is borrowed from fome transformation of Ovid . The picture of a virtuous and learned ...
Page 42
... numbers are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberlefs ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its ...
... numbers are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberlefs ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its ...
Page 50
... might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Ode at the request of Steele . variety variety and harmony of its numbers , and the beauty 50 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS J.
... might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Ode at the request of Steele . variety variety and harmony of its numbers , and the beauty 50 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS J.
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