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Page 45
... poets of antiqui- ty those descriptions , which were applicable to the scenes he visited . The attention and ability of their pupil sufficiently re- warded their assiduity . His study of the writers of ancient and modern times was so ...
... poets of antiqui- ty those descriptions , which were applicable to the scenes he visited . The attention and ability of their pupil sufficiently re- warded their assiduity . His study of the writers of ancient and modern times was so ...
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... poet's measure in the following instance , will sooth the ear , and the tenderness of his sentiments , find its way to the heart . BOOK I , ODE XIX . Mater saeva Cupidinum . Dame Venus , who lives but to vex , And Bacchus , the dealer ...
... poet's measure in the following instance , will sooth the ear , and the tenderness of his sentiments , find its way to the heart . BOOK I , ODE XIX . Mater saeva Cupidinum . Dame Venus , who lives but to vex , And Bacchus , the dealer ...
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... poet , and has actually produced a most woful and pitiful tragedy , in which he reveals his utter ignorance even of the common law of Prosody . Horace in London thus facetious- ly quizzes the audacious Pretender . BOOK I. ODE XXV . MY ...
... poet , and has actually produced a most woful and pitiful tragedy , in which he reveals his utter ignorance even of the common law of Prosody . Horace in London thus facetious- ly quizzes the audacious Pretender . BOOK I. ODE XXV . MY ...
Page 52
... poet he - which thou art not , My Godwin . Nay , nay , forbear these jealous wails , Though he's upborne on Fashion's gales , Thy heavy bark attendant sails , My Godwin . Fate each by different streams conveys , His skiff in Aganippe ...
... poet he - which thou art not , My Godwin . Nay , nay , forbear these jealous wails , Though he's upborne on Fashion's gales , Thy heavy bark attendant sails , My Godwin . Fate each by different streams conveys , His skiff in Aganippe ...
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... in all Homer , that condenses more sublimity than the present one . We may be allowed to re- mark , that as all the heathen deities were agents , it behoved the poet to give full reins to his fancy , to 152 COMPARISON , & c .
... in all Homer , that condenses more sublimity than the present one . We may be allowed to re- mark , that as all the heathen deities were agents , it behoved the poet to give full reins to his fancy , to 152 COMPARISON , & c .
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