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... mind : terror being a stronger fen fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth chapter of Ifaiah , has been written by Dr. Lowth ; whofe Latin prelec tions on the inimitable ...
... mind : terror being a stronger fen fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth chapter of Ifaiah , has been written by Dr. Lowth ; whofe Latin prelec tions on the inimitable ...
Page 30
... ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and profpects is apt to give the mind a Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- 7 compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and 30 · ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and profpects is apt to give the mind a Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- 7 compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and 30 · ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... mind so strongly inclined to a moral way of writing . After speaking of hunting the hare , he immediately fubjoins , much in the spirit of Denham , Beafts urg'd by us their fellow beasts pursue , And learn of man each other to undo ...
... mind so strongly inclined to a moral way of writing . After speaking of hunting the hare , he immediately fubjoins , much in the spirit of Denham , Beafts urg'd by us their fellow beasts pursue , And learn of man each other to undo ...
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... mind . Around th ' adjoining brook , that purls along The vocal grove , now fretting o'er a rock , Now fcarcely moving through a reedy pool , Now starting to a sudden stream , and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various ...
... mind . Around th ' adjoining brook , that purls along The vocal grove , now fretting o'er a rock , Now fcarcely moving through a reedy pool , Now starting to a sudden stream , and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various ...
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... minds the effects , which the scene delineated would have on the present spectator or hearer . Thus having fpoken of the roaring of the favages in a wilderness of Africa , he introduces a captive , who though just escaped from * prison ...
... minds the effects , which the scene delineated would have on the present spectator or hearer . Thus having fpoken of the roaring of the favages in a wilderness of Africa , he introduces a captive , who though just escaped from * prison ...
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