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Pagina 25
... design is to recommend piety . " I confidered that 66 pleasure was not the only end of poefy , " and that even the inftructions of morality " were not fo wholly the business of a poet , " as that precepts and examples of piety " were to ...
... design is to recommend piety . " I confidered that 66 pleasure was not the only end of poefy , " and that even the inftructions of morality " were not fo wholly the business of a poet , " as that precepts and examples of piety " were to ...
Pagina 43
... design in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he says , happened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , “ you you know is great , " the ...
... design in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he says , happened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , “ you you know is great , " the ...
Pagina 52
... design was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the personal fatire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the dress , - and mimicked the manner ...
... design was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the personal fatire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the dress , - and mimicked the manner ...
Pagina 166
... thence incline , " And grant affistance to my bold design ! " Pity with me , poor husbandmen's affairs , " And now , as if tranflated , hear our prayers . sc This " This is fenfe , and to the purpose : 166 DR Y DE N.
... thence incline , " And grant affistance to my bold design ! " Pity with me , poor husbandmen's affairs , " And now , as if tranflated , hear our prayers . sc This " This is fenfe , and to the purpose : 166 DR Y DE N.
Pagina 206
... design of << 86 " " 66 raising these two paffions : and suppose " them ever to have been excellently acted , yet action only adds grace , vigour , and more life , upon the ftage ; but cannot give it wholly where it is not first . But ...
... design of << 86 " " 66 raising these two paffions : and suppose " them ever to have been excellently acted , yet action only adds grace , vigour , and more life , upon the ftage ; but cannot give it wholly where it is not first . But ...
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