The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... shall insert from that ever to be admired poem . With thee converfing , I forget all time , All feasons and their change , all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn , her rifing sweet With charm of earlieft birds , pleasant the fun ...
... shall insert from that ever to be admired poem . With thee converfing , I forget all time , All feasons and their change , all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn , her rifing sweet With charm of earlieft birds , pleasant the fun ...
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... shall be parted , bliss or woe . After this determination , Adam is reprefented as partak ing of the forbidden fruit , the effects of which rash action are thus defcribed ; though rather in the fublime than the agreeable . -He fcrupled ...
... shall be parted , bliss or woe . After this determination , Adam is reprefented as partak ing of the forbidden fruit , the effects of which rash action are thus defcribed ; though rather in the fublime than the agreeable . -He fcrupled ...
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... shall I seek His bright appearances , or footsteps trace ? For though I fled him angry , yet recall'd To life prolong'd and promis'd race I now Gladly behold though but his utmost skirts Of glory , and far off his fteps adore ...
... shall I seek His bright appearances , or footsteps trace ? For though I fled him angry , yet recall'd To life prolong'd and promis'd race I now Gladly behold though but his utmost skirts Of glory , and far off his fteps adore ...
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... Shall men like figures pafs for high , or bafe , Slight , or important , only by their place ? Titles are marks of honeft men and wife ; The fool , or knave , that wears a title , lies . The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay ...
... Shall men like figures pafs for high , or bafe , Slight , or important , only by their place ? Titles are marks of honeft men and wife ; The fool , or knave , that wears a title , lies . The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay ...
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... shall So overflow that it be none at all * . A poem , like a dinner or a defert , may be made too rich , and , instead of gratifying , difguft . Poetry indeed ad- mits of more ornament than profe ; but true taste and right reafon abhors ...
... shall So overflow that it be none at all * . A poem , like a dinner or a defert , may be made too rich , and , instead of gratifying , difguft . Poetry indeed ad- mits of more ornament than profe ; but true taste and right reafon abhors ...
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