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Page 11
... most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without in- vention . OUR author , who had received an early tincture of religion , a ...
... most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without in- vention . OUR author , who had received an early tincture of religion , a ...
Page 248
... most unkind ! THE chief fubject of the fifth and last canto , is the battle that ensues , and the endeavours of the ladies to recover the hair . This battle is defcribed , as it ought to be , in very lofty and pompous terms : a game of ...
... most unkind ! THE chief fubject of the fifth and last canto , is the battle that ensues , and the endeavours of the ladies to recover the hair . This battle is defcribed , as it ought to be , in very lofty and pompous terms : a game of ...
Page 401
... most natural ftrokes . in a poem that most abounds with them , the Odyssey , is to fuch judges a fund of ridicule . They must needs nau- feate the fcenes that lie in Eumeus's cottage , and despise the coarse ideas of fo ill - bred a ...
... most natural ftrokes . in a poem that most abounds with them , the Odyssey , is to fuch judges a fund of ridicule . They must needs nau- feate the fcenes that lie in Eumeus's cottage , and despise the coarse ideas of fo ill - bred a ...
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