The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... turn of the poem , by introducing an allegory to account for the appearance . After these parts of the subject which hold chiefly of admiration , or naturally warm and intereft the mind , a pleasure of a very different nature , that ...
... turn of the poem , by introducing an allegory to account for the appearance . After these parts of the subject which hold chiefly of admiration , or naturally warm and intereft the mind , a pleasure of a very different nature , that ...
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... turn of composition which prevails in this piece , little can be faid with propriety by the author . He had two models ; that ancient and fimple one of the first Grecian poets , as it is refined by Virgil in the Georgics , and the ...
... turn of composition which prevails in this piece , little can be faid with propriety by the author . He had two models ; that ancient and fimple one of the first Grecian poets , as it is refined by Virgil in the Georgics , and the ...
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... conduct The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard , New to your springs and shades : who touch his ear With finer founds who heighten to his eye : 25 The The bloom of nature , and before him turn The PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION , Book I.
... conduct The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard , New to your springs and shades : who touch his ear With finer founds who heighten to his eye : 25 The The bloom of nature , and before him turn The PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION , Book I.
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... turn The gayeft , happieft attitude of things . Oft have the laws of each poetic strain The critic - verfe employ'd ; yet ftill unfung Lay this prime fubject , though importing most A Poet's name for fruitlefs is the attempt , By dull ...
... turn The gayeft , happieft attitude of things . Oft have the laws of each poetic strain The critic - verfe employ'd ; yet ftill unfung Lay this prime fubject , though importing most A Poet's name for fruitlefs is the attempt , By dull ...
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... turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots Shoots round the wide horizon , to furvey Nilus or 18 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
... turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , 175 Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots Shoots round the wide horizon , to furvey Nilus or 18 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
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