The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 20Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... What Dennis can't condemn , nor Dryden mend : What muft , writ with that fire and with that ease , The beaux , the ladies , and the critics , pleafe . C. BOYLE . A TO TO MY FRIEND THE AUTHOR , As DESIRING MY OPINION [ 13 ]
... What Dennis can't condemn , nor Dryden mend : What muft , writ with that fire and with that ease , The beaux , the ladies , and the critics , pleafe . C. BOYLE . A TO TO MY FRIEND THE AUTHOR , As DESIRING MY OPINION [ 13 ]
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... fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to tafte . I would a poet , like a mistress , try , Not by ... fires my foul the warms , With balm upon her lips , and raptures in her arms . Such is thy genius , and fuch art is ...
... fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to tafte . I would a poet , like a mistress , try , Not by ... fires my foul the warms , With balm upon her lips , and raptures in her arms . Such is thy genius , and fuch art is ...
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... fire : Which its diffufive virtue does difpenfe , In flowing verfe , and elevated fense . The town , which long has swallow'd foolish verfe , Which poetafters every where rehearse , Will mend their judgement now , refine their taste ...
... fire : Which its diffufive virtue does difpenfe , In flowing verfe , and elevated fense . The town , which long has swallow'd foolish verfe , Which poetafters every where rehearse , Will mend their judgement now , refine their taste ...
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... fire ; Why Scarfdale rages to furvive defire ; Naffau ; When Milo's vigour at th ' Olympick ' s shown , Whence tropes to Finch , or impudence to Sloane ; How matter , by the vary'd fhape of pores , Or idiots frames , or folemn fenators ...
... fire ; Why Scarfdale rages to furvive defire ; Naffau ; When Milo's vigour at th ' Olympick ' s shown , Whence tropes to Finch , or impudence to Sloane ; How matter , by the vary'd fhape of pores , Or idiots frames , or folemn fenators ...
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... fire Infpires the generous breaft of Devonshire . And Macclesfield is active to defend His country with the zeal he loves his friend . Like Leda's radiant fons divinely clear , Portland and Jersey deck'd in rays appear , To gild by ...
... fire Infpires the generous breaft of Devonshire . And Macclesfield is active to defend His country with the zeal he loves his friend . Like Leda's radiant fons divinely clear , Portland and Jersey deck'd in rays appear , To gild by ...
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