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... - mirers , those who appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling ? Swift rhapsody on poetry is far more po , pular than Akenfide's noble ode to Lord Lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men vi DEDICATION .
... - mirers , those who appear fuch out of fashion , and not of feeling ? Swift rhapsody on poetry is far more po , pular than Akenfide's noble ode to Lord Lord Huntingdon . The EPISTLES on the Characters of men vi DEDICATION .
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... appears A wondrous tree , that ' facred monarchs bears ? With what propriety could the tree , whose fhade protected the king , be faid to be pró- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theo- critus , will indeed appear lefs ...
... appears A wondrous tree , that ' facred monarchs bears ? With what propriety could the tree , whose fhade protected the king , be faid to be pró- lific of princes ? THAT POPE has not equalled Theo- critus , will indeed appear lefs ...
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... appear too general and indiftinct , and the last line conveys no new idea to the mind . The following picture in Shaftesbury , on the fame fort of fubject , appears to be more full and ftriking . " Beneath the moun- tain's foot , the ...
... appear too general and indiftinct , and the last line conveys no new idea to the mind . The following picture in Shaftesbury , on the fame fort of fubject , appears to be more full and ftriking . " Beneath the moun- tain's foot , the ...
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