A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Being a Continuation of Dr. J-n's Criticism on the Poems of GrayG. Wilkie, 1783 - 90 pages |
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... to yield , as he was not able to refute them . In place of this contrivance he had fubftituted another , which would have equally gratified the curiofity of the the Lovers of the IMITATIVE ARTS , for whose entertainment [ x ]
... to yield , as he was not able to refute them . In place of this contrivance he had fubftituted another , which would have equally gratified the curiofity of the the Lovers of the IMITATIVE ARTS , for whose entertainment [ x ]
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... whose entertainment this Publication was meant . In imitation of Mr. Brooke Boothby , he meant to have depofited the Original in the British Mu- feum , for the infpection of the curious . But , alas ! the late dreadful conflagration ...
... whose entertainment this Publication was meant . In imitation of Mr. Brooke Boothby , he meant to have depofited the Original in the British Mu- feum , for the infpection of the curious . But , alas ! the late dreadful conflagration ...
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... whose rapture is destroyed by an agglomeration of founds , each of which , taken separately , might have been with patience endured . For the eye we are prefented with " the flow winding off of the cattle ; " the plodding pace of the ...
... whose rapture is destroyed by an agglomeration of founds , each of which , taken separately , might have been with patience endured . For the eye we are prefented with " the flow winding off of the cattle ; " the plodding pace of the ...
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... whose measure and articulation are supposed to resemble what they denote . Gray found it in Dryden ; and , as Thomson had done before him , took it on truft . But what fhall we say of the " clarion of the cock ? " It is no doubt allowed ...
... whose measure and articulation are supposed to resemble what they denote . Gray found it in Dryden ; and , as Thomson had done before him , took it on truft . But what fhall we say of the " clarion of the cock ? " It is no doubt allowed ...
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... whose beauty " and fragrance are loft , on account of the " desert in which it grows . " It is nothing to the illuftration of the former pofition , that the flower blushes unfeen ; or that the gem may grow where no hand can reach it ...
... whose beauty " and fragrance are loft , on account of the " desert in which it grows . " It is nothing to the illuftration of the former pofition , that the flower blushes unfeen ; or that the gem may grow where no hand can reach it ...
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