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... last to make it lefs . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , It self a Subject for fatyric Rhime ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with so much Art ...
... last to make it lefs . Encomiums fuit not this cenforious time , It self a Subject for fatyric Rhime ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with so much Art ...
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... thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So Larks , which firft from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and reach at last the skies . } Το ΤΟ Killala in the County of Mayo in Ireland ,
... thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So Larks , which firft from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and reach at last the skies . } Το ΤΟ Killala in the County of Mayo in Ireland ,
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... in nature . The complete character of this poem confifts in fimplicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an eclogue natural , and the last delightful . If : If we would copy Nature , it may be 4 A DISCOURSE ON.
... in nature . The complete character of this poem confifts in fimplicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an eclogue natural , and the last delightful . If : If we would copy Nature , it may be 4 A DISCOURSE ON.
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... last of his language . Among the moderns , their fuccefs has been greatest who have most endeavour'd to make thefe ancients their pattern . The most confiderable Genius appears in the famous Taffo , and our Spenfer . Taffo in his Aminta ...
... last of his language . Among the moderns , their fuccefs has been greatest who have most endeavour'd to make thefe ancients their pattern . The most confiderable Genius appears in the famous Taffo , and our Spenfer . Taffo in his Aminta ...
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... last may be the reafon his expreffion is fometimes . not concise enough : enough for the Tetraftic has oblig'd him to extend his fenfe to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confin'd in the Couplet . In the ...
... last may be the reafon his expreffion is fometimes . not concise enough : enough for the Tetraftic has oblig'd him to extend his fenfe to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confin'd in the Couplet . In the ...
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