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Page 52
... grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks and dwells upon the base . This almost defcends to burlefque . What follows is hardly rhyme , and furely not poetry : Confecrate ...
... grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks and dwells upon the base . This almost defcends to burlefque . What follows is hardly rhyme , and furely not poetry : Confecrate ...
Page 176
... grace and ease . His own style is more affected than even that of his cotemporaries , when the Augustan sim- plicity was laid afide . Many of his meta- phors are far - fetched , and mixed . His character of Horace , however celebrated ...
... grace and ease . His own style is more affected than even that of his cotemporaries , when the Augustan sim- plicity was laid afide . Many of his meta- phors are far - fetched , and mixed . His character of Horace , however celebrated ...
Page 199
... - dertaking this fubject ; because he thought the French lan- guage incapable of delivering precepts of this fort , with becoming elegance and grace . He that has well digefted thefe , cannot be faid 04 He AND WRITINGS OF POPE 199.
... - dertaking this fubject ; because he thought the French lan- guage incapable of delivering precepts of this fort , with becoming elegance and grace . He that has well digefted thefe , cannot be faid 04 He AND WRITINGS OF POPE 199.
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