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Page 13
... less happy ; for they are not dictated by nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to ...
... less happy ; for they are not dictated by nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to ...
Page 14
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
Page 18
... less distinct is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new stanza to that of his master these ...
... less distinct is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new stanza to that of his master these ...
Page 29
... less consolation : from the grave of Pastora rises a light that forms a star ; and where Amaryllis wept for Amyntas , from every tear sprung up a violet . But William is his hero , and of William he will sing : The hovering winds on ...
... less consolation : from the grave of Pastora rises a light that forms a star ; and where Amaryllis wept for Amyntas , from every tear sprung up a violet . But William is his hero , and of William he will sing : The hovering winds on ...
Page 34
... less wit and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for ...
... less wit and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for ...
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