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... Admiration and envy , their constant attendants , like two unskilful artists , are apt to overcharge their pieces with too great a quantity of light or of fhade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that ...
... Admiration and envy , their constant attendants , like two unskilful artists , are apt to overcharge their pieces with too great a quantity of light or of fhade ; and are difqualified happily to hit upon that middle colour , that ...
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... . And the benevolence and poetry of the fuc- ceeding with , are worthy admiration , Ver . 400. et feq . Till the freed Indians , in their native groves , Till AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 27 THE poets, both ancient and modern, are ...
... . And the benevolence and poetry of the fuc- ceeding with , are worthy admiration , Ver . 400. et feq . Till the freed Indians , in their native groves , Till AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 27 THE poets, both ancient and modern, are ...
Page 39
... admirable mufic by Mr. Handel . And indeed this volume of Mil- ton's miscellaneous poems has not till very lately met with fuitable regard . Shall I of- fend any rational admirer of POPE by re- marking , that thefe juvenile defcriptive ...
... admirable mufic by Mr. Handel . And indeed this volume of Mil- ton's miscellaneous poems has not till very lately met with fuitable regard . Shall I of- fend any rational admirer of POPE by re- marking , that thefe juvenile defcriptive ...
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... admirably represent , and correfpond , to its different qualities and genius . The beginning of the fecond stanza , on the power which mufic exerts over the paffions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclufion of that ...
... admirably represent , and correfpond , to its different qualities and genius . The beginning of the fecond stanza , on the power which mufic exerts over the paffions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclufion of that ...
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... admirable critic , whofe work is one of the most valuable that his elegant nation hath produced , than to adopt , as some have done with small variations , his opinion , with- out acknowledging the debt . An apology would be neceffary ...
... admirable critic , whofe work is one of the most valuable that his elegant nation hath produced , than to adopt , as some have done with small variations , his opinion , with- out acknowledging the debt . An apology would be neceffary ...
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