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... variety . I am not here joining the cry of those who af- fect to consider Pope as no poet at all . He is , I confess , in my judgment , at a good distance from Dryden , and at an immeasurable one from such men as Spenser and Milton ...
... variety . I am not here joining the cry of those who af- fect to consider Pope as no poet at all . He is , I confess , in my judgment , at a good distance from Dryden , and at an immeasurable one from such men as Spenser and Milton ...
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... variety in music or painting , would be thought very unfurnished for criticism upon it , either on the score of principle or perception . The truth is , that perception has had nothing to do with the matter . The public ear was lulled ...
... variety in music or painting , would be thought very unfurnished for criticism upon it , either on the score of principle or perception . The truth is , that perception has had nothing to do with the matter . The public ear was lulled ...
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... variety , and will not be willing , in future , to listen to a poet of any pre- tensions , who shall come before them without a new stop or two to his lyre . To come to particu- lars : Let the reader take any dozen or twenty lines from ...
... variety , and will not be willing , in future , to listen to a poet of any pre- tensions , who shall come before them without a new stop or two to his lyre . To come to particu- lars : Let the reader take any dozen or twenty lines from ...
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... its own laws . This , however , is a trifle not worth the settling . The chief merit which is expected in verses of this description is idiomatical easiness . Yet this is variety to the celebrated picture of Belinda 40.
... its own laws . This , however , is a trifle not worth the settling . The chief merit which is expected in verses of this description is idiomatical easiness . Yet this is variety to the celebrated picture of Belinda 40.
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With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. Yet this is variety to the celebrated picture of Belinda , in the Rape of the Lock : - - Not with more glories - in th ' ethereal plain The sun first rises - o'er the purpled main , Than ...
With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. Yet this is variety to the celebrated picture of Belinda , in the Rape of the Lock : - - Not with more glories - in th ' ethereal plain The sun first rises - o'er the purpled main , Than ...
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