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Pagina 26
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical Effect of a Lover's Name upon Glass ...
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical Effect of a Lover's Name upon Glass ...
Pagina 37
... shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean ...
... shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean ...
Pagina 41
... shew pre- cisely what Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written ...
... shew pre- cisely what Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written ...
Pagina 44
... shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white dost spy Years to come a - fori ing lie , Close in their sacred secundine ...
... shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white dost spy Years to come a - fori ing lie , Close in their sacred secundine ...
Pagina 50
... shew , In life's fresh morn his fame does early crow . Describing an undisciplined army , after having . said with elegance , His forces seem'd no army , but a crowd Heartless , unarm'd , disorderly , and loud- he gives them a fit of ...
... shew , In life's fresh morn his fame does early crow . Describing an undisciplined army , after having . said with elegance , His forces seem'd no army , but a crowd Heartless , unarm'd , disorderly , and loud- he gives them a fit of ...
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