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... fire ; An ardent judge , who , zealous in his trust , With warmth gives sentence , and is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws , And is himself the great Sublime he draws . PÓPE . LONDON : PRINTED FOR P. C. AND J ...
... fire ; An ardent judge , who , zealous in his trust , With warmth gives sentence , and is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws , And is himself the great Sublime he draws . PÓPE . LONDON : PRINTED FOR P. C. AND J ...
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... fire , and increases the light and ardour of it . The space between heaven and earth marks out the extent of the poet's genius ; but the world itself seems too narrow a confinement for that of the critic . * And though his thoughts are ...
... fire , and increases the light and ardour of it . The space between heaven and earth marks out the extent of the poet's genius ; but the world itself seems too narrow a confinement for that of the critic . * And though his thoughts are ...
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... fire of genius is quickly damped , and suffers at last a total extinction . This must always be a necessary consequence , when what ought to be the reward of an honour- able ambition becomes the prey of knaves and flatterers . But the ...
... fire of genius is quickly damped , and suffers at last a total extinction . This must always be a necessary consequence , when what ought to be the reward of an honour- able ambition becomes the prey of knaves and flatterers . But the ...
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... fire reduced to ashes . Hegesias , in a panegyrical declamation on Alexander the Great , attempted thus to turn that accident to his honour : " No wonder ( said he ) that Diana's temple was consumed by so terrible a conflagration : the ...
... fire reduced to ashes . Hegesias , in a panegyrical declamation on Alexander the Great , attempted thus to turn that accident to his honour : " No wonder ( said he ) that Diana's temple was consumed by so terrible a conflagration : the ...
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... fire . So under fiery cope together rush'd Both battles main , with ruinous assault And inextinguishable rage : all heav'n Resounded ; and had earth beeu then , all earth Had to her centre shook.- The thought of " fiery arches being ...
... fire . So under fiery cope together rush'd Both battles main , with ruinous assault And inextinguishable rage : all heav'n Resounded ; and had earth beeu then , all earth Had to her centre shook.- The thought of " fiery arches being ...
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