Observations on Pope, Volume 665Printed, for the author, by A. Hamilton, 1796 - 346 pages |
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... Still difenchanted after a lapse of so many years , I feel like Agamemnon in the poet , juft waking from the dream of Jove : Εγρετο δ ' εξ ύπνο , θείη δε μιν αμφεχυτ ' ομφη : In Fancy's eye ftill fcenes of rapture shine ; Still vibrates ...
... Still difenchanted after a lapse of so many years , I feel like Agamemnon in the poet , juft waking from the dream of Jove : Εγρετο δ ' εξ ύπνο , θείη δε μιν αμφεχυτ ' ομφη : In Fancy's eye ftill fcenes of rapture shine ; Still vibrates ...
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... tuneful ftrings of David's lyre . But a noble paffage in Milton's Reafon of Church - Go- vernment is still more appofite ; " By devout prayer to ❝ that " that Eternal Spirit , who can enrich with all 18 OBSERVATIONS THE MESSIAH. ...
... tuneful ftrings of David's lyre . But a noble paffage in Milton's Reafon of Church - Go- vernment is still more appofite ; " By devout prayer to ❝ that " that Eternal Spirit , who can enrich with all 18 OBSERVATIONS THE MESSIAH. ...
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... still continuing in his mind from the vulgar re- presentations of these creatures with stings in their tails . The alteration was made , therefore , to banish a superfluity of expreffion . Ver . 94. And heap'd with products of Sabæan ...
... still continuing in his mind from the vulgar re- presentations of these creatures with stings in their tails . The alteration was made , therefore , to banish a superfluity of expreffion . Ver . 94. And heap'd with products of Sabæan ...
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... still ; and , if the glass be true , With Daphnis I may vie , though judg'd by you . We are reminded also of a paffage in Gray's Elegy : His liftlefs length at noon - tide would he stretch , And pore upon the brook that bubbles by . Ver ...
... still ; and , if the glass be true , With Daphnis I may vie , though judg'd by you . We are reminded also of a paffage in Gray's Elegy : His liftlefs length at noon - tide would he stretch , And pore upon the brook that bubbles by . Ver ...
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... still , Might change Olympus for a nobler hill . The fix following lines are much beneath the general excellence of Pope . Ver . 244. And draws the aromatic fouls of flow'rs . This is a moft happy fpecimen of true poetry , but derived ...
... still , Might change Olympus for a nobler hill . The fix following lines are much beneath the general excellence of Pope . Ver . 244. And draws the aromatic fouls of flow'rs . This is a moft happy fpecimen of true poetry , but derived ...
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