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... numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this un- adorned manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inversions and transpo- fitions will not disguise and ...
... numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this un- adorned manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inversions and transpo- fitions will not disguise and ...
Page 6
... numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong §§ , In the paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranf- lator Virgil , he has merited but little plause . It may not be ...
... numbers , as he flow'd along , And bade his willows learn the moving fong §§ , In the paffages which POPE has imitated from Theocritus , and from his Latin tranf- lator Virgil , he has merited but little plause . It may not be ...
Page 23
... number of the fkins of martens * " But to return . The story of + Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is fcarcely a single incident in it , borrowed from some transformation of Ovid . The picture of a virtuous and learned man in but ...
... number of the fkins of martens * " But to return . The story of + Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is fcarcely a single incident in it , borrowed from some transformation of Ovid . The picture of a virtuous and learned man in but ...
Page 42
... numbers . are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberless strokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amufing in our language , and which , as its ...
... numbers . are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberless strokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amufing in our language , and which , as its ...
Page 50
... might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Qde at the request of Steele . variety variety and harmony of its numbers , and the beauty 50 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Qde at the request of Steele . variety variety and harmony of its numbers , and the beauty 50 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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