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... descriptions and fentiments are trite and common . THAT the design of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the gol- den age , is an empty notion , which , though fupported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think ...
... descriptions and fentiments are trite and common . THAT the design of pastoral poefy is , to represent the undisturbed felicity of the gol- den age , is an empty notion , which , though fupported by a Rapin and a Fontenelle , I think ...
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... descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : - Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla novo fpumantia ...
... descriptions in Virgil , in point of elegance and energy : - Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per ftragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona folo ; proftratifque hoftibus ultor Infultat ; ceu præla novo fpumantia ...
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... descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are still tending to fome hint , or leading into fome reflection , upon mo- ral life , or political inftitution ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and ...
... descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are still tending to fome hint , or leading into fome reflection , upon mo- ral life , or political inftitution ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and ...
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... descriptions have therefore a diftinctnefs and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was accustomed to wander away ...
... descriptions have therefore a diftinctnefs and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was accustomed to wander away ...
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... descriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are seldom accu- rately marked . Examine the exactness of the enfuing description , and confider what a per- fect idea it ...
... descriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courses are seldom accu- rately marked . Examine the exactness of the enfuing description , and confider what a per- fect idea it ...
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