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... particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Eclogue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps the dig- nity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the ...
... particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Eclogue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps the dig- nity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the ...
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... particularly , * See particularly , ver . 151 . Round Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd , O'er heaps of 20 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... particularly , * See particularly , ver . 151 . Round Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd , O'er heaps of 20 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... particularly the magnificent lake and cafcade , highly deferve to be celebrated by fome future POPE ; and would have contributed not a little to the beauty of the poem now before us . bleffings bleffings of peace * . OLD FATHER THAMES ...
... particularly the magnificent lake and cafcade , highly deferve to be celebrated by fome future POPE ; and would have contributed not a little to the beauty of the poem now before us . bleffings bleffings of peace * . OLD FATHER THAMES ...
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... particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for many magnificent works of maffy gold , there is great propriety in fixing the restoration of the grandeur of each to that object , for which each was once fo ...
... particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for many magnificent works of maffy gold , there is great propriety in fixing the restoration of the grandeur of each to that object , for which each was once fo ...
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... particularly , malefuada is only ap- plied to FAMES , instead of a word that might reprefent the meagre and ghaftly figure in- tended . I make no fcruple of adding , that in this famous paffage , Virgil has exhibited no images fo lively ...
... particularly , malefuada is only ap- plied to FAMES , instead of a word that might reprefent the meagre and ghaftly figure in- tended . I make no fcruple of adding , that in this famous paffage , Virgil has exhibited no images fo lively ...
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