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... represent the undisturbed felicity of the gol- den age , is an empty notion , which , though supported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think , all rational critics have agreed to extir- pate and explode . But I do not remember , that ...
... represent the undisturbed felicity of the gol- den age , is an empty notion , which , though supported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think , all rational critics have agreed to extir- pate and explode . But I do not remember , that ...
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... represent the king himself speak- ing , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigioufness of his ruin is wonderfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; enough ; a new character is immediately formed : Those 16 ESSAY ...
... represent the king himself speak- ing , and madly boafting of his unbounded power , whence the prodigioufness of his ruin is wonderfully aggravated . Nor is this enough ; enough ; a new character is immediately formed : Those 16 ESSAY ...
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... represents the Meffiah treading the wine - prefs in his anger , and which an impartial judge , not blinded by the charms of antiquity , will think equal to many descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : Ille patris ...
... represents the Meffiah treading the wine - prefs in his anger , and which an impartial judge , not blinded by the charms of antiquity , will think equal to many descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : Ille patris ...
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... represent the meagre and ghaftly figure in- tended . I make no fcruple of adding , that in this famous paffage , Virgil has exhibited no images fo lively and diftinct , as these living figures painted by POPE , each of them with their ...
... represent the meagre and ghaftly figure in- tended . I make no fcruple of adding , that in this famous paffage , Virgil has exhibited no images fo lively and diftinct , as these living figures painted by POPE , each of them with their ...
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... represents ; And fullen Moloch fled Hath left in fhadows dread , His burning idol all of blackeft hue ; In vain with cimbals ring They call the griefly king , In difmal dance about the furnace blue f . * On the morning of Chrift's ...
... represents ; And fullen Moloch fled Hath left in fhadows dread , His burning idol all of blackeft hue ; In vain with cimbals ring They call the griefly king , In difmal dance about the furnace blue f . * On the morning of Chrift's ...
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