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... fufficiently diverfified by different paufes , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberless ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its beauties are not of ...
... fufficiently diverfified by different paufes , yet is this poem on the whole , from the numberless ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its beauties are not of ...
Page 161
... fufficiently pure ; which philofopher , and not the FLORID Spratt , was the claffic of that age . If I was to name a time , when the arts and polite li- terature , were at their height in this nation , I should mention the latter end of ...
... fufficiently pure ; which philofopher , and not the FLORID Spratt , was the claffic of that age . If I was to name a time , when the arts and polite li- terature , were at their height in this nation , I should mention the latter end of ...
Page 253
... fufficiently applaud the art of the poet , in conftantly keeping in the reader's view , the machinery of the poem , to the very laft . Even when the Lock is transformed , the fylphs , who had fo care- fully guarded it , are here once ...
... fufficiently applaud the art of the poet , in conftantly keeping in the reader's view , the machinery of the poem , to the very laft . Even when the Lock is transformed , the fylphs , who had fo care- fully guarded it , are here once ...
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