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... never yet feen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or uninftructive employment to examine at large , without ...
... never yet feen a fair and candid criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amufement , or uninftructive employment to examine at large , without ...
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... never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we conftantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age . POPE himself informs us , in a note , that he judi- cioufly ...
... never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we conftantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age . POPE himself informs us , in a note , that he judi- cioufly ...
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... adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that readful folitude , I never heard A found fo difmal as their parting oars ! * MESS . V. 23 . + v . 70 . ON On the other hand , the prophet has been fometimes 12 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that readful folitude , I never heard A found fo difmal as their parting oars ! * MESS . V. 23 . + v . 70 . ON On the other hand , the prophet has been fometimes 12 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... never have looked to meet with it . I 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 ...
... never have looked to meet with it . I 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 ...
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... never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was accustomed to wander away into the country for days and for weeks , at- tentive to , " each rural fight , each rural 66 found ; " while many a poet who has dwelt for years in ...
... never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was accustomed to wander away into the country for days and for weeks , at- tentive to , " each rural fight , each rural 66 found ; " while many a poet who has dwelt for years in ...
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