Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... those ancient fhepherds admitting and invit- ing fome diverfion , none was fo proper to that folia- * Written at fixteen years of age . Fontenelle's Dife . on Paftorals . ry and fedentary life as finging ; and that in a 3 A Difcourfe on ...
... those ancient fhepherds admitting and invit- ing fome diverfion , none was fo proper to that folia- * Written at fixteen years of age . Fontenelle's Dife . on Paftorals . ry and fedentary life as finging ; and that in a 3 A Difcourfe on ...
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... those in whom it is acknowledged fo to be . It is therefore from the prac- tice of Theocritus and Virgil ( the only undifputed au- thors of Paftoral ) that the Critics have drawn the fore- going notions concerning it . Fontenelle's Difc ...
... those in whom it is acknowledged fo to be . It is therefore from the prac- tice of Theocritus and Virgil ( the only undifputed au- thors of Paftoral ) that the Critics have drawn the fore- going notions concerning it . Fontenelle's Difc ...
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... those who love ? Go , gentle gales , and bear my fighs away ! Curs'd be the fields that cause my Delia's ftay ; Fade every bloffom , wither every tree , Die every flower , and perifh all , but she . What have I faid ? where'er my Delia ...
... those who love ? Go , gentle gales , and bear my fighs away ! Curs'd be the fields that cause my Delia's ftay ; Fade every bloffom , wither every tree , Die every flower , and perifh all , but she . What have I faid ? where'er my Delia ...
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Alexander Pope. There while you rest in amaranthine bowers , Or from those meads felect unfading flowers , Behold us kindly , who your name implore , Daphne , our goddess , and our grief no more ! LYCIDAS . How all things liften , while ...
Alexander Pope. There while you rest in amaranthine bowers , Or from those meads felect unfading flowers , Behold us kindly , who your name implore , Daphne , our goddess , and our grief no more ! LYCIDAS . How all things liften , while ...
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... those in the Pollio of Virgil . This will not feem furprizing , when we reflect , that the Eclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the fame fubject . One may judge that Virgil did not copy it line by line , but se- lected fuch ...
... those in the Pollio of Virgil . This will not feem furprizing , when we reflect , that the Eclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the fame fubject . One may judge that Virgil did not copy it line by line , but se- lected fuch ...
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