The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... grow , My early vifitation and my last Atev'n , which I bred up with tender hand From the firft opening bud , and gave you names ; Who now fhall rear ye to th ' fun , or rank Your tribes , and water from the ambrofial fount ? Thee ...
... grow , My early vifitation and my last Atev'n , which I bred up with tender hand From the firft opening bud , and gave you names ; Who now fhall rear ye to th ' fun , or rank Your tribes , and water from the ambrofial fount ? Thee ...
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... grow out of them . Since the moft natural are the beft , and proper expreffions are generally connected with the ideas themselves , and follow them as the shadow does the fubftance . Those who think clearly , therefore , will always ...
... grow out of them . Since the moft natural are the beft , and proper expreffions are generally connected with the ideas themselves , and follow them as the shadow does the fubftance . Those who think clearly , therefore , will always ...
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... growing work to view : Finding the painter's science at a stand , The Goddess fnatch'd the pencil from his hand , And , finishing the piece , fhe fmiling said , Behold one work of mine which ne'er shall fade . Another compliment of this ...
... growing work to view : Finding the painter's science at a stand , The Goddess fnatch'd the pencil from his hand , And , finishing the piece , fhe fmiling said , Behold one work of mine which ne'er shall fade . Another compliment of this ...
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... grown , With gold he buys verfes and calls them his own . Go on , mafter Paul , nor mind what the world fays , They are furely his own for which a man pays . Another Epigram of the fame Latin poet is very prettily imitated in the ...
... grown , With gold he buys verfes and calls them his own . Go on , mafter Paul , nor mind what the world fays , They are furely his own for which a man pays . Another Epigram of the fame Latin poet is very prettily imitated in the ...
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... grow . Pity him , Jove , and his bold theft allow ; The flames he once stole from thee grant him now . Some bad writer having taken the liberty to censure Mr. Prior , the poet very wittily lafh'd his impertinence in this . Epigram ...
... grow . Pity him , Jove , and his bold theft allow ; The flames he once stole from thee grant him now . Some bad writer having taken the liberty to censure Mr. Prior , the poet very wittily lafh'd his impertinence in this . Epigram ...
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