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Page 325
... lines : fomething indelicate , notwithstanding all the dexterity and management of our poet , in fpeaking of fo untoward a circumftance . I know not where caltration is the chief cause of distress , in any other poem , except in a very ...
... lines : fomething indelicate , notwithstanding all the dexterity and management of our poet , in fpeaking of fo untoward a circumftance . I know not where caltration is the chief cause of distress , in any other poem , except in a very ...
Page 326
... lines of this quotation , bear a wonderful resemblance to a fine paffage in the book of Job , ch . xxix . ver . 6. & feq . I fhall only add , that this is the only complete poem of the kind . Thefe These two circumftances are fancied ...
... lines of this quotation , bear a wonderful resemblance to a fine paffage in the book of Job , ch . xxix . ver . 6. & feq . I fhall only add , that this is the only complete poem of the kind . Thefe These two circumftances are fancied ...
Page 358
... lines . ' Tis built of brass , the better to diffuse The spreading founds , and multiply the News ; Where echos in repeated echos play : A mart for ever full , and open night and day . Nor filence is within , nor voice exprefs , But a ...
... lines . ' Tis built of brass , the better to diffuse The spreading founds , and multiply the News ; Where echos in repeated echos play : A mart for ever full , and open night and day . Nor filence is within , nor voice exprefs , But a ...
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