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... Foreft , now fucceeds . This description confifts of quaint and groundless fuppofition , tedious digref- fion , and remote fimile . The expref- fion is confufsed , ungrammatical , and scarcely intelligible . Nonsense is not usually ...
... Foreft , now fucceeds . This description confifts of quaint and groundless fuppofition , tedious digref- fion , and remote fimile . The expref- fion is confufsed , ungrammatical , and scarcely intelligible . Nonsense is not usually ...
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... Foreft , in which he adopted his manner , are the very parts that de- grade it . Windfor Foreft , the author's age when it was written confidered , is really a great performance ; it has much beautiful description , and musical ver ...
... Foreft , in which he adopted his manner , are the very parts that de- grade it . Windfor Foreft , the author's age when it was written confidered , is really a great performance ; it has much beautiful description , and musical ver ...
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... foreft rung . The critical reader will difcern in this pleafing paffage , too great fameness of imagery and expreffion ; too much of the fweet vale , ' the flowery mead , ' and the 6 plain renewed with flowers ; ' too much of the ...
... foreft rung . The critical reader will difcern in this pleafing paffage , too great fameness of imagery and expreffion ; too much of the fweet vale , ' the flowery mead , ' and the 6 plain renewed with flowers ; ' too much of the ...
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