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... and fruits were lavish and luscious . The poet defcribed what he faw and felt : and had no need to have recourfe to those artificial affemblages B 2 affemblages of pleasing objects , which are not to be AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
... and fruits were lavish and luscious . The poet defcribed what he faw and felt : and had no need to have recourfe to those artificial affemblages B 2 affemblages of pleasing objects , which are not to be AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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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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... pleasing arts of defcriptive poetry , to introduce moral fentences and instructions in an oblique and indire manner , in places where one natu- rally expects only painting and amufement . We have virtue , as POPE remarks * , put upon us ...
... pleasing arts of defcriptive poetry , to introduce moral fentences and instructions in an oblique and indire manner , in places where one natu- rally expects only painting and amufement . We have virtue , as POPE remarks * , put upon us ...
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... pleasing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of the chearful day , Nor cast one longing lingring look behind ? Or this art POPE has exhibited fome fpecimens in the poem we are examining , but not fo many as might be ...
... pleasing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of the chearful day , Nor cast one longing lingring look behind ? Or this art POPE has exhibited fome fpecimens in the poem we are examining , but not fo many as might be ...
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... pleasing vehicle of fatire , feldom , if ever , used by the antients ; for we know so little of the Margites of Homer , that it can- not be produced as an example . As the poet disappears in this way of writing , and does not deliver ...
... pleasing vehicle of fatire , feldom , if ever , used by the antients ; for we know so little of the Margites of Homer , that it can- not be produced as an example . As the poet disappears in this way of writing , and does not deliver ...
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