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Page 40
... Death . This last beautiful moral is , I think , clearly intimated in the speech of Sin , where , complaining of this her dreadful issue , she adds , ' Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death , my son and foe , who sets them on ...
... Death . This last beautiful moral is , I think , clearly intimated in the speech of Sin , where , complaining of this her dreadful issue , she adds , ' Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death , my son and foe , who sets them on ...
Page 306
... Death and Sin , who act a large part this book . Such beautiful extended allegories are certainly some of the finest compositions of genius ; but , as I have before observed , are not agreeable to the nature of an heroic poem . This of ...
... Death and Sin , who act a large part this book . Such beautiful extended allegories are certainly some of the finest compositions of genius ; but , as I have before observed , are not agreeable to the nature of an heroic poem . This of ...
Page 516
... death of the French king to that of monsieur Boileau , Racine , Corneille , and several other poets , whom they regretted on this occasion , as persons who would have obliged the world with very noble elegies on the death of so great a ...
... death of the French king to that of monsieur Boileau , Racine , Corneille , and several other poets , whom they regretted on this occasion , as persons who would have obliged the world with very noble elegies on the death of so great a ...
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