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nious as can poffibly be written , and that in rhymed Verse also they are used , without detracting in the leaft from its Melodioufnefs . In proof of these Af- fertions , he produces a Variety of Examples from Paradife Loft , with ...
nious as can poffibly be written , and that in rhymed Verse also they are used , without detracting in the leaft from its Melodioufnefs . In proof of these Af- fertions , he produces a Variety of Examples from Paradife Loft , with ...
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... Verse labours , when strong heavy Land is to be ploughed ! In another it moves nimbly , when the Turning over light Ground is reprefented ! In one Line , a ponde- rous rous Waggon proceeds flowly ! while in two He- mifticks 66 The WORKS ...
... Verse labours , when strong heavy Land is to be ploughed ! In another it moves nimbly , when the Turning over light Ground is reprefented ! In one Line , a ponde- rous rous Waggon proceeds flowly ! while in two He- mifticks 66 The WORKS ...
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... which muft needs have a bad Effect . Towards the End of this Epistle our Author highly celebrates a modern Writer , Vanerius , as a F 3 much much better Compofer of Latin Verses than either Ovid or Art . 5 . 69 For JULY , 1739 .
... which muft needs have a bad Effect . Towards the End of this Epistle our Author highly celebrates a modern Writer , Vanerius , as a F 3 much much better Compofer of Latin Verses than either Ovid or Art . 5 . 69 For JULY , 1739 .
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much better Compofer of Latin Verses than either Ovid or Lucan , and as having with great Judg- ment taken care to imitate Virgil in the Particular juft mentioned , and many others . There are , as he affures us ... Verses than either ...
much better Compofer of Latin Verses than either Ovid or Lucan , and as having with great Judg- ment taken care to imitate Virgil in the Particular juft mentioned , and many others . There are , as he affures us ... Verses than either ...
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... Verse is varied at leaft with as much Skill in this famous Poem , as in the very Georgick itself : He is even inclined to think with more , because , in this Refpect , the English Language has the Advan- tage of the Latin , by reafon of ...
... Verse is varied at leaft with as much Skill in this famous Poem , as in the very Georgick itself : He is even inclined to think with more , because , in this Refpect , the English Language has the Advan- tage of the Latin , by reafon of ...
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