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... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine * , with more home- felt pleasure , than POPE † could poffibly ex- perience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any ...
... must have heard the murmurings of a brook , and the whispers of a pine * , with more home- felt pleasure , than POPE † could poffibly ex- perience upon the fame occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any ...
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... must suffer in a literal translation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into 86 66 your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- mong the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pose the chaplet which adorns your head * . " POPE has ...
... must suffer in a literal translation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into 86 66 your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- mong the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pose the chaplet which adorns your head * . " POPE has ...
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... must do a noble English poet the justice to observe , that it is this parti- cular art that is the very distinguishing excel- lence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which , the descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ...
... must do a noble English poet the justice to observe , that it is this parti- cular art that is the very distinguishing excel- lence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which , the descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ...
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... must alfo condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive poem extant , I mean that of Lucretius . 1 WE are next to fpeak of the LYRIC pieces of POPE . He used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a ...
... must alfo condemn the Georgics of Virgil , and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive poem extant , I mean that of Lucretius . 1 WE are next to fpeak of the LYRIC pieces of POPE . He used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a ...
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... must refer the reader to the characters of Alcæus and of Milton in the two firft , and to the ftanza of Mr. Weft's ode , on the barons procuring magna charta , which I fhall infert at length . On yonder plain , Along whofe willow ...
... must refer the reader to the characters of Alcæus and of Milton in the two firft , and to the ftanza of Mr. Weft's ode , on the barons procuring magna charta , which I fhall infert at length . On yonder plain , Along whofe willow ...
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