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Page xvii
... fubject for fatyric rhime ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with fo much Art , Such various Learning mix'd in ev'ry part , Poets are bound a loud ...
... fubject for fatyric rhime ; Ignorance honour'd , Wit and Worth defam'd , Folly triumphant , and ev'n Homer blam'd ! But to this Genius , join'd with fo much Art , Such various Learning mix'd in ev'ry part , Poets are bound a loud ...
Page xxiii
... her shore , The Nymph be fung , when she can flow no more . Nor shall thy fong , old Thames ! forbear to shine , At once the fubject and the song divine . a 4 80 85 90 Peace , Peace , fung by thee , fhall please ev'n Britons ( xxiii )
... her shore , The Nymph be fung , when she can flow no more . Nor shall thy fong , old Thames ! forbear to shine , At once the fubject and the song divine . a 4 80 85 90 Peace , Peace , fung by thee , fhall please ev'n Britons ( xxiii )
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... fubject ; that it contain fome particular beauty in itself , and that it be different in every Eclogue . Befides , in each of them a defign'd fcene or profpect is to be prefented to our view , which fhould likewife have its variety ...
... fubject ; that it contain fome particular beauty in itself , and that it be different in every Eclogue . Befides , in each of them a defign'd fcene or profpect is to be prefented to our view , which fhould likewife have its variety ...
Page 54
... fubject . One may judge that Virgil did not copy it line by line , but felected fuch ideas as beft agreed with the nature of paftoral poetry , and difpofed them in that manner which ferv'd most to beautify his piece . I have endeavour'd ...
... fubject . One may judge that Virgil did not copy it line by line , but felected fuch ideas as beft agreed with the nature of paftoral poetry , and difpofed them in that manner which ferv'd most to beautify his piece . I have endeavour'd ...
Page 69
... crimes in a defrotick reign ? Both doom'd alike , for fportive Tyrants bled , But that the fubject starv'd , the beast was fed . 60 * The Foreft Laws . E 3 Proud Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began , A mighty WINDSOR - FOREST . 69.
... crimes in a defrotick reign ? Both doom'd alike , for fportive Tyrants bled , But that the fubject starv'd , the beast was fed . 60 * The Foreft Laws . E 3 Proud Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began , A mighty WINDSOR - FOREST . 69.
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