The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 148
... fire a gun , Have don't with bon - fires , and at home Made fquibs and crackers overcome ; To fet the rabble on a flame , ; And keep their governors from blame , Difperfe the news the pulpit tells , Confirm'd with fire - works and with ...
... fire a gun , Have don't with bon - fires , and at home Made fquibs and crackers overcome ; To fet the rabble on a flame , ; And keep their governors from blame , Difperfe the news the pulpit tells , Confirm'd with fire - works and with ...
Page 186
... fire like a charriot wheel , by its own rapidity . Exact difpofition , just thought , correct elocution , polifhed numbers , may have been found in a thoufand ; but this poetical fire , this vivida vis animi , in a very few . Even in ...
... fire like a charriot wheel , by its own rapidity . Exact difpofition , just thought , correct elocution , polifhed numbers , may have been found in a thoufand ; but this poetical fire , this vivida vis animi , in a very few . Even in ...
Page 307
... fire On his own fhoulders through the Trojan fire ! Could I not tear , and throw him for a prey , Bafe wretch ! to every monfter of the fea ? Stab all his friends , his darling fon destroy , And to his table ferve the murder'd boy ? For ...
... fire On his own fhoulders through the Trojan fire ! Could I not tear , and throw him for a prey , Bafe wretch ! to every monfter of the fea ? Stab all his friends , his darling fon destroy , And to his table ferve the murder'd boy ? For ...
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