Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... ancient fort of poetry was pro- bably paftoralt . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient fhepherds admitting and invit- ing fome diverfion , none was fo proper to that folia- * Written at fixteen years of age ...
... ancient fort of poetry was pro- bably paftoralt . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient fhepherds admitting and invit- ing fome diverfion , none was fo proper to that folia- * Written at fixteen years of age ...
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... ancients their pattern . The most confiderable Genius appears * ΘΕΡΙΣΤΑΙ , Idyll . x . and ΑΛΙΕΙΣ , Idyll . xxi . Rapin Refl . on Arift . part ii . Refl . xxvii . - Pref . to the Ecl . in Dryden's Virg . in the famous Taffo , and our ...
... ancients their pattern . The most confiderable Genius appears * ΘΕΡΙΣΤΑΙ , Idyll . x . and ΑΛΙΕΙΣ , Idyll . xxi . Rapin Refl . on Arift . part ii . Refl . xxvii . - Pref . to the Ecl . in Dryden's Virg . in the famous Taffo , and our ...
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... ancients . Spenfer's Calender , in Mr. Dry- den's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in fome few points . Eis Eclogues ...
... ancients . Spenfer's Calender , in Mr. Dry- den's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever fince the time of Virgil . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in fome few points . Eis Eclogues ...
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... ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her fcale ; * Ifai . ch . II . ver . I. Ch . 45. ver . 8. Ch . 25. ver . 4 . Ch . 9. v . 7 . Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And MESSIAH , MESSIAH, a Sacred Eclogue in ...
... ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her fcale ; * Ifai . ch . II . ver . I. Ch . 45. ver . 8. Ch . 25. ver . 4 . Ch . 9. v . 7 . Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And MESSIAH , MESSIAH, a Sacred Eclogue in ...
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... ancient bards foretold : Hear him , ye deaf , and , all ye blind , behold ! He from thick films fhall purge the visual ray , And on the fightless eye - ball pour the day : ' Tis he th ' obftructed paths of found fhall clear , And bid ...
... ancient bards foretold : Hear him , ye deaf , and , all ye blind , behold ! He from thick films fhall purge the visual ray , And on the fightless eye - ball pour the day : ' Tis he th ' obftructed paths of found fhall clear , And bid ...
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