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... remarkable . THE groupe of allegorical perfonages that fucceeds the last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) ...
... remarkable . THE groupe of allegorical perfonages that fucceeds the last mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) ...
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... remarkable . What profaic tameness and infipidity do we meet with in the following lines ? Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks ...
... remarkable . What profaic tameness and infipidity do we meet with in the following lines ? Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks ...
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... remarkable ; he afferts , qu'on ne peut jamais faire un bon opera ; parceque la mufique ne fauroit narrer ; que les paffions n'y peuvent etre peinte dans . toute l'etenduë qu'elles demandent ; que d'ailleurs elle ne fauroit fouvent ...
... remarkable ; he afferts , qu'on ne peut jamais faire un bon opera ; parceque la mufique ne fauroit narrer ; que les paffions n'y peuvent etre peinte dans . toute l'etenduë qu'elles demandent ; que d'ailleurs elle ne fauroit fouvent ...
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Joseph Warton. give our author his firft poetic pleasures , is a remarkable circumftance . On the first fight of Dryden he abandoned the reft , having now found an author , whofe caft was ex- actly congenial with his own . His works ...
Joseph Warton. give our author his firft poetic pleasures , is a remarkable circumftance . On the first fight of Dryden he abandoned the reft , having now found an author , whofe caft was ex- actly congenial with his own . His works ...
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... remarkable coincidencies of POPE's thought and expreffions , with those of other writers , which are here inferted , as they cannot fail of entertaining the cu- rious . Pride , malice , folly , against Dryden rose In various fhapes of ...
... remarkable coincidencies of POPE's thought and expreffions , with those of other writers , which are here inferted , as they cannot fail of entertaining the cu- rious . Pride , malice , folly , against Dryden rose In various fhapes of ...
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