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... Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poefy . What is there tranfcendently Sublime or Pathetic in POPE ? In his works there is indeed , " nihil inane , " nihil arceffitum ; --- puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini proprior ...
... Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poefy . What is there tranfcendently Sublime or Pathetic in POPE ? In his works there is indeed , " nihil inane , " nihil arceffitum ; --- puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini proprior ...
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... wood , as well as to the co- quette ; and in putting the light of the fun and the warmth of a lover on a level . • Ver . 50 . + Ver . 16 . A PATHETIC A PATHETIC reflection , properly intro- duced into a descriptive 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... wood , as well as to the co- quette ; and in putting the light of the fun and the warmth of a lover on a level . • Ver . 50 . + Ver . 16 . A PATHETIC A PATHETIC reflection , properly intro- duced into a descriptive 32 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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Joseph Warton. A PATHETIC reflection , properly intro- duced into a descriptive poem , will have greater force and beauty , and more deeply intereft a reader , than a moral one . When POPE ... PATHETIC reflection, properly intro- ...
Joseph Warton. A PATHETIC reflection , properly intro- duced into a descriptive poem , will have greater force and beauty , and more deeply intereft a reader , than a moral one . When POPE ... PATHETIC reflection, properly intro- ...
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... pathetic and poetical , efpecially when he conjures the powers below in beautiful trochaics , By the hero's armed fhades Glittering through the gloomy glades , By the youths that dy'd for love Wand'ring in the myrtle grove ; * Ver . 480 ...
... pathetic and poetical , efpecially when he conjures the powers below in beautiful trochaics , By the hero's armed fhades Glittering through the gloomy glades , By the youths that dy'd for love Wand'ring in the myrtle grove ; * Ver . 480 ...
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... pathetic exclamations of Eurydice , the moment fhe was fnatched back , and which fhe uttered as fhe was gra- dually finking to the fhades , especially where the movingly takes her laft adieu , Jamque vale ! And adds , that she is now ...
... pathetic exclamations of Eurydice , the moment fhe was fnatched back , and which fhe uttered as fhe was gra- dually finking to the fhades , especially where the movingly takes her laft adieu , Jamque vale ! And adds , that she is now ...
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