Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J.Woodward, 1836 |
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... Greece . They had no recourse to the age nearer to Homer's time by eighteen hundred Barbarians for poetical beauties , but sought for years : yet he found , even then , the state of the every thing in Homer , where , indeed , there is ...
... Greece . They had no recourse to the age nearer to Homer's time by eighteen hundred Barbarians for poetical beauties , but sought for years : yet he found , even then , the state of the every thing in Homer , where , indeed , there is ...
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... Greece her useful rules indites , When to repress , and when indulge our flights : High on Parnassus ' top her sons she show'd , And pointed out those arduous paths they trod ; Held from afar , aloft , the immortal prize , And urged the ...
... Greece her useful rules indites , When to repress , and when indulge our flights : High on Parnassus ' top her sons she show'd , And pointed out those arduous paths they trod ; Held from afar , aloft , the immortal prize , And urged the ...
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... Greece and Rome was known , And every author's merit but his own . The machinery , madam , is a term invented by the critics , to signify that part which the deities , angels , or demons , are made to act in a poem : for the ancient ...
... Greece and Rome was known , And every author's merit but his own . The machinery , madam , is a term invented by the critics , to signify that part which the deities , angels , or demons , are made to act in a poem : for the ancient ...
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... Greece her eldest sons admires , whose humour it was to magnify the authors of the In every public virtue we excel ; preceding age ; secondly , against the court and no- We build , we paint , we sing , we dance as well ; bility , who ...
... Greece her eldest sons admires , whose humour it was to magnify the authors of the In every public virtue we excel ; preceding age ; secondly , against the court and no- We build , we paint , we sing , we dance as well ; bility , who ...
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... Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd , heavenly goddess , sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore , Devouring dogs and hungry ...
... Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd , heavenly goddess , sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore , Devouring dogs and hungry ...
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