The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... feem , And needs will envy what they must esteem . Live , and enjoy their spite ! nor mourn that fate , Which would , if Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose mufe did once , like thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his ...
... feem , And needs will envy what they must esteem . Live , and enjoy their spite ! nor mourn that fate , Which would , if Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose mufe did once , like thine , in plains delight ; Thine fhall , like his ...
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... feem to fancy that the world muft approve of a ftrong inclination : and if his genius be ever fo whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine great , he cannot at first discover it any other way , that authors are obliged to please ...
... feem to fancy that the world muft approve of a ftrong inclination : and if his genius be ever fo whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine great , he cannot at first discover it any other way , that authors are obliged to please ...
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... feem natural , we destroy that easy fim- plicity from whence arifes the delight : for what is inviting in this fort of poetry proceeds not fo much from the idea of that bufinefs , as the tran- quillity of a country life . We must ...
... feem natural , we destroy that easy fim- plicity from whence arifes the delight : for what is inviting in this fort of poetry proceeds not fo much from the idea of that bufinefs , as the tran- quillity of a country life . We must ...
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... feem to ftrive again ; Not chaos - like together crush'd and bruis'd , But , as the world , harmoniously confus'd ; Where order in variety we fee , And where , though all things differ , all agree . Here waving groves a chequer'd scene ...
... feem to ftrive again ; Not chaos - like together crush'd and bruis'd , But , as the world , harmoniously confus'd ; Where order in variety we fee , And where , though all things differ , all agree . Here waving groves a chequer'd scene ...
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... feem through confecrated walks to rove , I hear foft mufic die along the grove : Led by the found , I roam from fhade to fhade , By god - like poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the laft numbers flow ...
... feem through confecrated walks to rove , I hear foft mufic die along the grove : Led by the found , I roam from fhade to fhade , By god - like poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the laft numbers flow ...
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