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Page 53
... paffion cannot mufic raife and quell ! When Jubal ftruck the chorded shell , His lift'ning brethren food around , And wondering on their faces fell , To worship that celeftial found : Lefs than a god they thought there could not dwell ...
... paffion cannot mufic raife and quell ! When Jubal ftruck the chorded shell , His lift'ning brethren food around , And wondering on their faces fell , To worship that celeftial found : Lefs than a god they thought there could not dwell ...
Page 272
... paffion , capable of producing any great calamities in human life ; for this paffion has engroffed , and been imperti- nently introduced into , all subjects In the • When the refolation of Medea to kill her children , is almoft difarmed ...
... paffion , capable of producing any great calamities in human life ; for this paffion has engroffed , and been imperti- nently introduced into , all subjects In the • When the refolation of Medea to kill her children , is almoft difarmed ...
Page 273
... paffion . A paffion however it is , that will always shine upon the stage , where it is introduced as the chief fubject , but not fubordinate and fecondary * . Thus , per- : Heu , heu ! cur me oculis afpicitis , liberi ; Cur arridetis ...
... paffion . A paffion however it is , that will always shine upon the stage , where it is introduced as the chief fubject , but not fubordinate and fecondary * . Thus , per- : Heu , heu ! cur me oculis afpicitis , liberi ; Cur arridetis ...
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