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... those who appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling ? SWIFT's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular than Akenfide's noble ode to lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your sprightly fatires , my ...
... those who appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling ? SWIFT's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular than Akenfide's noble ode to lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women , and your sprightly fatires , my ...
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... flowers 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 .
... flowers 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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... those fair fields where facred Ifis glides , Or elfe where Cam his winding vales divides + . A Where were ye , nymphs , when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep ...
... those fair fields where facred Ifis glides , Or elfe where Cam his winding vales divides + . A Where were ye , nymphs , when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep ...
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... those very beautiful , perfonifi- cations . The fong begins with a fudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and death of the tyrant . Earth with her inhabitants ...
... those very beautiful , perfonifi- cations . The fong begins with a fudden exclamation of the Jews , expreffing their joy and wonder at the unexpected change of their condition , and death of the tyrant . Earth with her inhabitants ...
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... 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 ON THE GENIUS.
... 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 ON THE GENIUS.
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