The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 67
... song , May rife above the rhyming throng ; O'er all our lift'ning paffions reign , O'erwhelm our fouls with joy and pain : With terror shake , with pity move , Rouze with revenge , or melt with love . O deign t'attend his evening walk ...
... song , May rife above the rhyming throng ; O'er all our lift'ning paffions reign , O'erwhelm our fouls with joy and pain : With terror shake , with pity move , Rouze with revenge , or melt with love . O deign t'attend his evening walk ...
Page 176
... Song confirm'd her fway . But who the coming changes can prefage , And mark the future periods of the stage ? Perhaps , if skill could diftant times explore , New Bebus , new Durfeys yet remain in store . Ferhaps , where Lear has rav'd ...
... Song confirm'd her fway . But who the coming changes can prefage , And mark the future periods of the stage ? Perhaps , if skill could diftant times explore , New Bebus , new Durfeys yet remain in store . Ferhaps , where Lear has rav'd ...
Page 358
... Song of Solomon , or in any part of the Old Teftament . It is , perhaps , the beautiful fimplicity of Fenelon's file , fo hard to imitate , and so easily understood , that has degraded him in the eyes of the injudicious ; but it is to ...
... Song of Solomon , or in any part of the Old Teftament . It is , perhaps , the beautiful fimplicity of Fenelon's file , fo hard to imitate , and so easily understood , that has degraded him in the eyes of the injudicious ; but it is to ...
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