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... things fmelt of fummer and smelt of autumn , Παι ' ώσδεν θέλεος μαλα πιοῦ , ὡσδε δ ' όπωςης † , were present and real . Succeeding writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abun- dant to be real , referred them to the ficti- tious ...
... things fmelt of fummer and smelt of autumn , Παι ' ώσδεν θέλεος μαλα πιοῦ , ὡσδε δ ' όπωςης † , were present and real . Succeeding writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abun- dant to be real , referred them to the ficti- tious ...
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... thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo fuccefsfully versified in an Eclogue , that incontestably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil ...
... thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo fuccefsfully versified in an Eclogue , that incontestably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil ...
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... thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of this ode with absolute beauty ; nor can the Greek or Roman poefy pro- duce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , to this ode * " * Prælect , xiii . pag . 121 . IT cannot be thought ...
... thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of this ode with absolute beauty ; nor can the Greek or Roman poefy pro- duce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , to this ode * " * Prælect , xiii . pag . 121 . IT cannot be thought ...
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... thing . where we should never have looked to meet with it . I must do a noble English poet the juftice to observe , that it is this parti- cular art that is the very diftinguishing excel- lence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which ...
... thing . where we should never have looked to meet with it . I must do a noble English poet the juftice to observe , that it is this parti- cular art that is the very diftinguishing excel- lence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which ...
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... thing to mufic , but the languid verfes of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ; he ran instantly to his harpfichord , and ftriking a few cords , fung in recitative ...
... thing to mufic , but the languid verfes of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ; he ran instantly to his harpfichord , and ftriking a few cords , fung in recitative ...
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