Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 страници |
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... form the traveller's staff , the thresher's flail . Where yon brown hazels pendent catkins bear . S Eclog . I. Bid here dark peas or tangled vetches spread , There Bid lxviii THE LIFE of OF which enabled him to preserve the truth of ...
... form the traveller's staff , the thresher's flail . Where yon brown hazels pendent catkins bear . S Eclog . I. Bid here dark peas or tangled vetches spread , There Bid lxviii THE LIFE of OF which enabled him to preserve the truth of ...
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... bears no refemblance to a mountain or a cloud ; if it appears at all , it appears as a building . The writer of these remarks has fome- times , from the immediate environs of London , feen the hovering smoke concealing the body of the ...
... bears no refemblance to a mountain or a cloud ; if it appears at all , it appears as a building . The writer of these remarks has fome- times , from the immediate environs of London , feen the hovering smoke concealing the body of the ...
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... bears , But Atlas only , which supports the spheres . Sentiments that have no foundation in fact , or in reafon , can have no merit . Such we fhall meet with in our next quotation , which , befides , will not be eafily acquitted of ...
... bears , But Atlas only , which supports the spheres . Sentiments that have no foundation in fact , or in reafon , can have no merit . Such we fhall meet with in our next quotation , which , befides , will not be eafily acquitted of ...
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... bear no relation , and add no dignity , to an English hill or palace : A crown of fuch majestic tow'rs doth grace The gods great mother , when her heavenly race Do homage to her- * Denham has not even the merit of originality , in this ...
... bear no relation , and add no dignity , to an English hill or palace : A crown of fuch majestic tow'rs doth grace The gods great mother , when her heavenly race Do homage to her- * Denham has not even the merit of originality , in this ...
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... bears the name of verses , to be more profaic than these : My fixed thoughts my wandering eye betrays , Viewing a neighbouring hill , whose top fo late A chapel crown'd , ' till in the common fate The adjoining Abbey fell , ( may no ...
... bears the name of verses , to be more profaic than these : My fixed thoughts my wandering eye betrays , Viewing a neighbouring hill , whose top fo late A chapel crown'd , ' till in the common fate The adjoining Abbey fell , ( may no ...
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