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... circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumstance : the prophet fays , " The parched ground fhall become a pool ; " Our author ...
... circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumstance : the prophet fays , " The parched ground fhall become a pool ; " Our author ...
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Joseph Warton. circumstances ; hence that disgusting im- propriety of introducing what may be called a fet of hereditary ... circumstances in his defcriptions , to- tally unobferved by all his predeceffors . What What poet hath ever taken ...
Joseph Warton. circumstances ; hence that disgusting im- propriety of introducing what may be called a fet of hereditary ... circumstances in his defcriptions , to- tally unobferved by all his predeceffors . What What poet hath ever taken ...
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Joseph Warton. of Carthagena , he has used a circumstance inimitably lively , picturesque , and striking to the ... circumstances judiciously selected , is what chiefly discriminates poetry from history , and renders the former ...
Joseph Warton. of Carthagena , he has used a circumstance inimitably lively , picturesque , and striking to the ... circumstances judiciously selected , is what chiefly discriminates poetry from history , and renders the former ...
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