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... 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 moderate rhymer melodious . POPE lengthened the abruptness of Waller , and at the ...
... 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 moderate rhymer melodious . POPE lengthened the abruptness of Waller , and at the ...
Page 20
... verses , to which the reader is referred , at all more appropriated . The ftag - chafe , that imme- diately follows , although fome of the lines . are incomparably good * , is not so full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as ...
... verses , to which the reader is referred , at all more appropriated . The ftag - chafe , that imme- diately follows , although fome of the lines . are incomparably good * , is not so full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as ...
Page 49
... Verse 626. The rise of fountains and rivers in AUTUMN , verfe 781. A man perishing in the fnows , in WINTER , verse 277. The wolves defcending from the Alps , and a view of winter within the polar circle , verfe 809 , which are all of ...
... Verse 626. The rise of fountains and rivers in AUTUMN , verfe 781. A man perishing in the fnows , in WINTER , verse 277. The wolves defcending from the Alps , and a view of winter within the polar circle , verfe 809 , which are all of ...
Page 58
... verse , heu ! non tua , and of its repetition after tibi . The places in which Orpheus , according to POPE , made his lamentations are not fo wild , fo favage and difmal , as thofe mentioned by Virgil ; to introduce him " befide the ...
... verse , heu ! non tua , and of its repetition after tibi . The places in which Orpheus , according to POPE , made his lamentations are not fo wild , fo favage and difmal , as thofe mentioned by Virgil ; to introduce him " befide the ...
Page 61
... . Handel has not fet to mufic the former , as well as the latter , of these celebrated odes , in which he has difplayed the combined powers of verse and and voice , to a wonderful degree . No poem AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 61.
... . Handel has not fet to mufic the former , as well as the latter , of these celebrated odes , in which he has difplayed the combined powers of verse and and voice , to a wonderful degree . No poem AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 61.
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