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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 circumstances the prophet fays , " The parched ground shall become a pool ; " Our ...
... circumstances and adjuncts is what , renders poefy a more lively imitation ; of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the following circumstances the prophet fays , " The parched ground shall become a pool ; " Our ...
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... . C. 11 . † At a vacation exercise , & c . Ver . 91. Milton was now aged but nineteen . expreffed by felecting fuch circumstances , as are beft adapted ex AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 27 quoted paffage, except perhaps in the third ...
... . C. 11 . † At a vacation exercise , & c . Ver . 91. Milton was now aged but nineteen . expreffed by felecting fuch circumstances , as are beft adapted ex AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 27 quoted paffage, except perhaps in the third ...
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Joseph Warton. of Carthagena , he has ufed a circumstance inimitably lively , picturefque , and striking to the ... circumstances judiciously selected , is what chiefly difcriminates poetry from history , and renders the former ...
Joseph Warton. of Carthagena , he has ufed a circumstance inimitably lively , picturefque , and striking to the ... circumstances judiciously selected , is what chiefly difcriminates poetry from history , and renders the former ...
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