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... thought , fhould be difpofed . Such as PITT , SANDYS , FAIRFAX , BROOME , BUCK- INGHAM , LANSDOWN . This enumera- tion is not intended as a complete ca- talogue of writers , and in their proper order , but only to mark out briefly the ...
... thought , fhould be difpofed . Such as PITT , SANDYS , FAIRFAX , BROOME , BUCK- INGHAM , LANSDOWN . This enumera- tion is not intended as a complete ca- talogue of writers , and in their proper order , but only to mark out briefly the ...
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... thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic , in the order in which they are arranged in ...
... thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant invective , the writings of this English Claffic , in the order in which they are arranged in ...
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... thought , I cannot forbear adding , that the riddle of the Royal Oak , in the first Pas- toral , invented in imitation of the Virgilian ænigmas in the third eclogue , favours of pun , and puerile conceit . Αιθε γενοίμαν Α βομβευσα ...
... thought , I cannot forbear adding , that the riddle of the Royal Oak , in the first Pas- toral , invented in imitation of the Virgilian ænigmas in the third eclogue , favours of pun , and puerile conceit . Αιθε γενοίμαν Α βομβευσα ...
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... thought capable : and in giving the firft fpe- cimen of that harmony in English verse , which is now become indifpenfibly necef- fary ; and which has fo forcibly and univer- fally influenced the public ear , as to have rendered every ...
... thought capable : and in giving the firft fpe- cimen of that harmony in English verse , which is now become indifpenfibly necef- fary ; and which has fo forcibly and univer- fally influenced the public ear , as to have rendered every ...
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... pro- duce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , to this ode * " * Prælect , xiii . pag . 121 . IT cannot be thought ftrange , that he who could IT 18 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS are here accumulated together! We hear the ...
... pro- duce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , to this ode * " * Prælect , xiii . pag . 121 . IT cannot be thought ftrange , that he who could IT 18 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS are here accumulated together! We hear the ...
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