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... seem , As he that met his likenefs in the stream : The Graces thefe ; and fee how they contend , Who most shall praife , who beft shall recommend ? The Chariot now the painful steep afcends ; The Peans ceafe ; thy glorious labour ends ...
... seem , As he that met his likenefs in the stream : The Graces thefe ; and fee how they contend , Who most shall praife , who beft shall recommend ? The Chariot now the painful steep afcends ; The Peans ceafe ; thy glorious labour ends ...
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... seems necef- fary to give some account of this kind of Poem , and it is my defign to comprize in this short ... seem to differ , and a few remarks which I think have escaped their observation . The original of Poetry is afcribed ...
... seems necef- fary to give some account of this kind of Poem , and it is my defign to comprize in this short ... seem to differ , and a few remarks which I think have escaped their observation . The original of Poetry is afcribed ...
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... seems a little defective , for his swains are fometimes abufive and immodest , and perhaps too much inclining to rufticity ; for inftance , in his fourth and fifth Idyllia . But ' tis enough that all others learn'd their excellencies ...
... seems a little defective , for his swains are fometimes abufive and immodest , and perhaps too much inclining to rufticity ; for inftance , in his fourth and fifth Idyllia . But ' tis enough that all others learn'd their excellencies ...
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... seems to have been the original of a new fort of poem , the Paftoral Comedy , in Italy , it cannot fo well be confider'd as a copy of the ancients . Spenfer's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind ...
... seems to have been the original of a new fort of poem , the Paftoral Comedy , in Italy , it cannot fo well be confider'd as a copy of the ancients . Spenfer's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind ...
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... seems to charm no more . STREP HON . In fpring the fields , in autumn hills I love , At morn the plains , at noon the fhady grove , But Delia always ; absent from her fight , Nor plains at morn , nor groves at noon delight . DAPHNI S ...
... seems to charm no more . STREP HON . In fpring the fields , in autumn hills I love , At morn the plains , at noon the fhady grove , But Delia always ; absent from her fight , Nor plains at morn , nor groves at noon delight . DAPHNI S ...
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