The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 51
... youth , The endearments that youth did bestow , The thoughts of past pleasure and truth , The beft of all bleffings below . Those traces for ever will laft , Nor fickness , nor time can remove , For when youth and beauty are past , And ...
... youth , The endearments that youth did bestow , The thoughts of past pleasure and truth , The beft of all bleffings below . Those traces for ever will laft , Nor fickness , nor time can remove , For when youth and beauty are past , And ...
Page 150
... youth would learn an elegant tafte , a juft and graceful deport- ment and behaviour , and a proper and forcible elocution and pronunciation , which are no where , that I know of ,, fo well cultivated as on the Stage . But to fire youth ...
... youth would learn an elegant tafte , a juft and graceful deport- ment and behaviour , and a proper and forcible elocution and pronunciation , which are no where , that I know of ,, fo well cultivated as on the Stage . But to fire youth ...
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... youth , would make their pupils acquainted with the fables and customs of the ancients ; and then permit them to read this celebrated author , and make their own remarks on his excellencies and defects ; without being embarraffed and ...
... youth , would make their pupils acquainted with the fables and customs of the ancients ; and then permit them to read this celebrated author , and make their own remarks on his excellencies and defects ; without being embarraffed and ...
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