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... mufic and Cecilia . Mufic the greatest good that mortals know .-- Mufic can noble bints impart.- There follows in this stanza , which is the third , a description of a fubject very trite , Orpheus drawing the beafts about him . POPE ...
... mufic and Cecilia . Mufic the greatest good that mortals know .-- Mufic can noble bints impart.- There follows in this stanza , which is the third , a description of a fubject very trite , Orpheus drawing the beafts about him . POPE ...
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... mufic exerts over the paffions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclufion of that stanza . preferved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubje & . One ftanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this ...
... mufic exerts over the paffions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclufion of that stanza . preferved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubje & . One ftanza of which I cannot forbear inserting in this ...
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... mufic ftole With powerful magic o'er each softening soul , Society , and law , and facred order rose . E PODE II ... mufic over the paffions , which may perhaps be reckoned a blameable tautology ; espe- cially as these lines , Mufic the ...
... mufic ftole With powerful magic o'er each softening soul , Society , and law , and facred order rose . E PODE II ... mufic over the paffions , which may perhaps be reckoned a blameable tautology ; espe- cially as these lines , Mufic the ...
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