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... feems to have been OMINOUS . " I am not perfuaded that all true genius died with POPE : for one would be tempted to think , that the Seasons of Thomson , the Leonidas of Glover , the Pleasures of Imagination , and the Odes of Akenide ...
... feems to have been OMINOUS . " I am not perfuaded that all true genius died with POPE : for one would be tempted to think , that the Seasons of Thomson , the Leonidas of Glover , the Pleasures of Imagination , and the Odes of Akenide ...
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Joseph Warton. IT feems our author and Racine re- turned one day in high fpirits from Ver- failles , with two honeft citizens of Paris . As their converfation was full of gaiety and humour , the two citizens were greatly de- lighted and ...
Joseph Warton. IT feems our author and Racine re- turned one day in high fpirits from Ver- failles , with two honeft citizens of Paris . As their converfation was full of gaiety and humour , the two citizens were greatly de- lighted and ...
Page 301
... feems indifputably to have beeh imitated , in that moft juftly celebrated of modern epigrams : Lumine Acon dextro , capta eft Leonilla finiftro , Et potis eft forma vincere uterque Deos ; Blande puer , lumen quod habes , concede forori ...
... feems indifputably to have beeh imitated , in that moft juftly celebrated of modern epigrams : Lumine Acon dextro , capta eft Leonilla finiftro , Et potis eft forma vincere uterque Deos ; Blande puer , lumen quod habes , concede forori ...
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