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... things fmelt of fummer and smelt of autumn , Παν ' ώσδον θέρεος μαλα πιονΘ- , ώσδε δ ' όπωξης το were present and real . Succeeding writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abun dant to be real , referred them to the ficti- tious ...
... things fmelt of fummer and smelt of autumn , Παν ' ώσδον θέρεος μαλα πιονΘ- , ώσδε δ ' όπωξης το were present and real . Succeeding writers fuppofing these beauties too great and abun dant to be real , referred them to the ficti- tious ...
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... thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Eclogue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil ...
... thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophesy of Isaiah , which POPE has fo fuccessfully verfified in an Eclogue , that inconteftably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil ...
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... thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of this ode with abfolute beauty ; nor can the Greek or Roman poefy pro- duce any thing that is fimilar , or second , to this ode * " Prælect . xiii . pag . 121 . It cannot be thought ...
... thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of this ode with abfolute beauty ; nor can the Greek or Roman poefy pro- duce any thing that is fimilar , or second , to this ode * " Prælect . xiii . pag . 121 . It cannot be thought ...
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... thing where we should 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 ...
... thing where we should 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 ...
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... thing to music , but the languid verses of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ; he ran inftantly to his harpsichord , and ftriking a few cords , fung in recitative ...
... thing to music , but the languid verses of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ; he ran inftantly to his harpsichord , and ftriking a few cords , fung in recitative ...
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