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Page xviii
... Nature , Senfe improv'd by Sound . Unlike thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and ...
... Nature , Senfe improv'd by Sound . Unlike thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and ...
Page xix
... Nature to the Ancients shown ; Fancy improves , and Judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ' difgraceful ' tis their clothes to wear . Some in a polish'd ftyle write Paftoral , 20 IS • } 25 Arcadia ...
... Nature to the Ancients shown ; Fancy improves , and Judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ' difgraceful ' tis their clothes to wear . Some in a polish'd ftyle write Paftoral , 20 IS • } 25 Arcadia ...
Page xxviii
... nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vaft , how copious , are thy new defigns ! How ev'ry Mufic ...
... nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vaft , how copious , are thy new defigns ! How ev'ry Mufic ...
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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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... natural , and the last delightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this confideration along with us , that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age . So that we are not to describe our fhepherds as ...
... natural , and the last delightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this confideration along with us , that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age . So that we are not to describe our fhepherds as ...
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