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... kind of controverly among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . That the great Gre- cian masters retained it only out of refpect to ...
... kind of controverly among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . That the great Gre- cian masters retained it only out of refpect to ...
Page 236
... kind , and courteous to this gentleman , Hop in his walks , and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries , With purple grapes , green figs , and mulberries . The honey - bags steal from the humble bees , And for night ...
... kind , and courteous to this gentleman , Hop in his walks , and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries , With purple grapes , green figs , and mulberries . The honey - bags steal from the humble bees , And for night ...
Page 395
... kind of fullen fatisfaction , into the flood below . This catastrophe muft furely be allowed to be well adapted to the subject , the perfon , and the scene ; in a word , to all the horrors with which the poem abounds . And is therefore ...
... kind of fullen fatisfaction , into the flood below . This catastrophe muft furely be allowed to be well adapted to the subject , the perfon , and the scene ; in a word , to all the horrors with which the poem abounds . And is therefore ...
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