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... shepherd's wit 30 Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the fhepherd , and the ...
... shepherd's wit 30 Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the fhepherd , and the ...
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... natural to imagine , that the leisure of thofe ancient shepherds requiring fome diverfion , none was fo proper to that folitary life as finging ; and that in their B 2 fongs fongs they took occafion to celebrate their own felicity . A ...
... natural to imagine , that the leisure of thofe ancient shepherds requiring fome diverfion , none was fo proper to that folitary life as finging ; and that in their B 2 fongs fongs they took occafion to celebrate their own felicity . A ...
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... shepherd ; the form of this imitation is dramatic , or narrative , or mix'd of both ; the fable fimple , the manners not too po- lite nor too ruftic : The thoughts are plain , yet admit a little quickness and paffion , but that short ...
... shepherd ; the form of this imitation is dramatic , or narrative , or mix'd of both ; the fable fimple , the manners not too po- lite nor too ruftic : The thoughts are plain , yet admit a little quickness and paffion , but that short ...
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... shepherd's life , and in concealing its miferies . Nor is it enough to introduce fhepherds difcourfing to- gether , but a regard must be had to the fubject ; that it contain fome particular beauty in itself , and that it be different in ...
... shepherd's life , and in concealing its miferies . Nor is it enough to introduce fhepherds difcourfing to- gether , but a regard must be had to the fubject ; that it contain fome particular beauty in itself , and that it be different in ...
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... Shepherd's Boy ( he feeks no better name ) Beneath the fhade a fpreading Beach difplays , Thyrfis , the Mufick of that murm'ring Spring , are manifeftly imitations of A Shepherd's Boy ( no better do him call ) ——— Tityre , tu patula ...
... Shepherd's Boy ( he feeks no better name ) Beneath the fhade a fpreading Beach difplays , Thyrfis , the Mufick of that murm'ring Spring , are manifeftly imitations of A Shepherd's Boy ( no better do him call ) ——— Tityre , tu patula ...
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