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... these ( to a man ) will hate , or fufpect him : a hundred honest Gentlemen will dread him as a Wit , and a hundred innocent women as a fatirift . In a word , whatever be his fate in Poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the ...
... these ( to a man ) will hate , or fufpect him : a hundred honest Gentlemen will dread him as a Wit , and a hundred innocent women as a fatirift . In a word , whatever be his fate in Poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the ...
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... these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in bringing fenfe and rhyme together ; and what Critic can be fo unreasonable ...
... these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in bringing fenfe and rhyme together ; and what Critic can be fo unreasonable ...
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... these Poems ( as long as they laft ) remain as a teftimony , that their Author never made his talents fubfervient to the mean and unworthy ends of Party or felf - intereft ; the gratification of publick prejudices , or private paffions ...
... these Poems ( as long as they laft ) remain as a teftimony , that their Author never made his talents fubfervient to the mean and unworthy ends of Party or felf - intereft ; the gratification of publick prejudices , or private paffions ...
Page xviii
... these more dull , as more cenforious days , When few dare give , and fewer merit Praise ; A Mufe fincere , that never Flatt'ry knew , Pays what to friendship and defert is due . Young , yet judicious ; in your verse are found Art ...
... these more dull , as more cenforious days , When few dare give , and fewer merit Praise ; A Mufe fincere , that never Flatt'ry knew , Pays what to friendship and defert is due . Young , yet judicious ; in your verse are found Art ...
Page xxii
... these Atlantic shores , And shelter me in Windfor's fragrant bow'rs ; green : Or to my much - lov'd Ifis ' walks convey , And on her flow'ry banks for ever lay . Thence let me view the venerable scene , The awful dome , the groves ...
... these Atlantic shores , And shelter me in Windfor's fragrant bow'rs ; green : Or to my much - lov'd Ifis ' walks convey , And on her flow'ry banks for ever lay . Thence let me view the venerable scene , The awful dome , the groves ...
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