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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... Pleasure , by Mr. Addifon Care and Generofity , by Mr. Smart 2 ibid . 3 . 4- ibid . 5 25 27 30 That fort of Allegory which is made up of real or hiftorical Perfons , and of Actions either probable or poffible ; and where the Moral is ...
... Pleasure , by Mr. Addifon Care and Generofity , by Mr. Smart 2 ibid . 3 . 4- ibid . 5 25 27 30 That fort of Allegory which is made up of real or hiftorical Perfons , and of Actions either probable or poffible ; and where the Moral is ...
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... pleasure , and furnishes the mind with folid inftruction . He not only , like Midas , turns every thing he touches into gold , ( but what has never yet been fabled ) he foars beyond the regions of Ether , and brings gold out of nothing ...
... pleasure , and furnishes the mind with folid inftruction . He not only , like Midas , turns every thing he touches into gold , ( but what has never yet been fabled ) he foars beyond the regions of Ether , and brings gold out of nothing ...
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... pleasure . My heart , like a poor bird which is hunted from her neft , is ftill returning to the place of its affections , and , after fome vain efforts to fly off , fettles again where all its cares and all its tendernesses are ...
... pleasure . My heart , like a poor bird which is hunted from her neft , is ftill returning to the place of its affections , and , after fome vain efforts to fly off , fettles again where all its cares and all its tendernesses are ...
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... pleasure he would other- wife have of employing his own fagacity . In fhort , the writer fhould never fay fo much , but that the reader may perceive he was capable of faying more ; for the hunting down a thought , and tiring the reader ...
... pleasure he would other- wife have of employing his own fagacity . In fhort , the writer fhould never fay fo much , but that the reader may perceive he was capable of faying more ; for the hunting down a thought , and tiring the reader ...
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... pleasure that makes its way directly to the foul ) is not to be always harmo- nious , but should be fo contrived , as Mr. Pope obferves , that the found may echo to the sense , and be rough or fmooth , fwift or flow , according to the ...
... pleasure that makes its way directly to the foul ) is not to be always harmo- nious , but should be fo contrived , as Mr. Pope obferves , that the found may echo to the sense , and be rough or fmooth , fwift or flow , according to the ...
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