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Page 156
... more beauties than he takes away † . IF POPE has fo much excelled in fpeaking in the propereft terms of this art , * Ver . 484 . may + Dryden to Kneller . perhaps perhaps be ascribed to his having practised it * ; 156 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... more beauties than he takes away † . IF POPE has fo much excelled in fpeaking in the propereft terms of this art , * Ver . 484 . may + Dryden to Kneller . perhaps perhaps be ascribed to his having practised it * ; 156 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 196
... perhaps the game might be learned from this description . Amidft many pro- faic flatnelles , there are many fine ftrokes in the CHRISTIAD : particularly , his an- gels , with refpect to their perfons and in- fignia , are drawn with that ...
... perhaps the game might be learned from this description . Amidft many pro- faic flatnelles , there are many fine ftrokes in the CHRISTIAD : particularly , his an- gels , with refpect to their perfons and in- fignia , are drawn with that ...
Page 304
... perhaps one of the moft elegant , and happy applications that ever was taken from any claffic ; O fuavis anima ! qualem te dicam bonam Antehac fuiffe , tales cum fint reliquić * ! THE verfification of this tranflation of POPE , is , in ...
... perhaps one of the moft elegant , and happy applications that ever was taken from any claffic ; O fuavis anima ! qualem te dicam bonam Antehac fuiffe , tales cum fint reliquić * ! THE verfification of this tranflation of POPE , is , in ...
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