The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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... Night , is well conceived , and abounds with that impious flattery , which naturally refults from falfehood , who is the speaker . The circumftance of her not being known by Night in the habit of Truth , which fhe had before affumed and ...
... Night , is well conceived , and abounds with that impious flattery , which naturally refults from falfehood , who is the speaker . The circumftance of her not being known by Night in the habit of Truth , which fhe had before affumed and ...
Page 12
... Night produced after fhe had taken Dueffa in her chariot , and arrived where the body of the Pagan lay , is thus wonderfully defcribed . And all the while fhe ftood upon the ground , ' The wakeful dogs did never ceafe to bay , As giving ...
... Night produced after fhe had taken Dueffa in her chariot , and arrived where the body of the Pagan lay , is thus wonderfully defcribed . And all the while fhe ftood upon the ground , ' The wakeful dogs did never ceafe to bay , As giving ...
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... night , where they flew great numbers and put Xerxes to flight before they were furrounded . Diodorus tells us , that the Grecians rejecting all thoughts of fafety , and preferring glory to life , defired their general to lead them ...
... night , where they flew great numbers and put Xerxes to flight before they were furrounded . Diodorus tells us , that the Grecians rejecting all thoughts of fafety , and preferring glory to life , defired their general to lead them ...
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