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... king , be faid to be lific of princes ? pro- THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear less surprising , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian ...
... king , be faid to be lific of princes ? pro- THAT POPE has not equalled Theocritus , will indeed appear less surprising , if we re- flect , that no original writer ever remained fo unrivalled by fucceeding copyifts , as this Sicilian ...
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... ; See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings , And heap'd with products of Sabæan springs ↑ . Ifaiah , c . lx . v . 4 , 6 , 7 . + Ver . 91 . As As profperity and happiness are described in this Eclogue by AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
... ; See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings , And heap'd with products of Sabæan springs ↑ . Ifaiah , c . lx . v . 4 , 6 , 7 . + Ver . 91 . As As profperity and happiness are described in this Eclogue by AND WRITINGS OF POPE .
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... king of Babylon ; a fong abounding in the moft fplendid images , and carried on by per- petual , and those very ... kings and princes of the Gentiles , rejoice , and infult with reproaches the bro- ken power of their most implacable foe ...
... king of Babylon ; a fong abounding in the moft fplendid images , and carried on by per- petual , and those very ... kings and princes of the Gentiles , rejoice , and infult with reproaches the bro- ken power of their most implacable foe ...
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... kings : immediately all of them arife from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather con- folation from his calamity . Art thou also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto ...
... kings : immediately all of them arife from their thrones , and walk forward to meet the king of Babylon ; they infult and deride him , and gather con- folation from his calamity . Art thou also made weak as we ? art thou made like unto ...
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... king of Babylon cast out : they furvey it closely and attentively , and at laft hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who fhook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and deftroyed it's cities ? They reproach ...
... king of Babylon cast out : they furvey it closely and attentively , and at laft hardly know it . Is this the man who made earth tremble , who fhook the kingdoms ? Who made the world a folitude , and deftroyed it's cities ? They reproach ...
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Abelard Addiſon addreffed alfo alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumftance cloſe compofition Corneille defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegance Eloifa epic poetry epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftanza ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fylphs genius greateſt hiftory himſelf Homer Iliad images imagination inferted inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft Loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion painted pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes prefent profe publiſhed quæ Quintilian Racine racter raiſed reafon refpect repreſent ſay ſcene ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpecies ſtory ſtrong ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe writing