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... pieces . -NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS―― are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious A 4 3 judicious than the method he pre- fcribes ...
... pieces . -NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS―― are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious A 4 3 judicious than the method he pre- fcribes ...
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... pieces with too great a quantity of light or of fhade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that mixture of · B error error and excellence , which alone fenders every representation of AN ...
... pieces with too great a quantity of light or of fhade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that mixture of · B error error and excellence , which alone fenders every representation of AN ...
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... pieces , i • Πα ποκ ' ας ήσθ ἱκα Δαφνις ἐτακείο ; πα πικα , Νύμφαι ; Η καλα Πηνεία καλα τέμπεα , η κατα Πίνδω ; Ου γαρ δη πολέμοιο με αν ςοον ειχεῖ ̓ Αναπω , Ουδ ' Αίνας σκοπιαν , εδ ' Ακκιδῶν ἱερον ύδως * . Where ftray ye , Muses , in ...
... pieces , i • Πα ποκ ' ας ήσθ ἱκα Δαφνις ἐτακείο ; πα πικα , Νύμφαι ; Η καλα Πηνεία καλα τέμπεα , η κατα Πίνδω ; Ου γαρ δη πολέμοιο με αν ςοον ειχεῖ ̓ Αναπω , Ουδ ' Αίνας σκοπιαν , εδ ' Ακκιδῶν ἱερον ύδως * . Where ftray ye , Muses , in ...
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Joseph Warton. SECT . II . - Of WINDSOR FOREST , and DE LYRIC Pieces . ESCRIPTIVE Poetry was by no means the fhining talent of POPE . This affer- tion may be manifested by the few images in- troduced in the poem before us , which arenot ...
Joseph Warton. SECT . II . - Of WINDSOR FOREST , and DE LYRIC Pieces . ESCRIPTIVE Poetry was by no means the fhining talent of POPE . This affer- tion may be manifested by the few images in- troduced in the poem before us , which arenot ...
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... pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and II Penferofo ; if we may except his Ode on the Nativity of Chrift , which is indeed prior in the order of time , and in which a penetrating critic might have discovered the feeds of that ...
... pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and II Penferofo ; if we may except his Ode on the Nativity of Chrift , which is indeed prior in the order of time , and in which a penetrating critic might have discovered the feeds of that ...
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