The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 43
... variety , from which Pope and his rhyming facilities have so long withheld us . ( 4 ) Not though I collected one pattern victorious Of all that was good , and accomplish'd , and glorious , From deeds in the daylight , and books on the ...
... variety , from which Pope and his rhyming facilities have so long withheld us . ( 4 ) Not though I collected one pattern victorious Of all that was good , and accomplish'd , and glorious , From deeds in the daylight , and books on the ...
Page 53
... variety of powers , in consequence of those varieties of his own , in which after shaking us with his terrors , or shocking us with his resentments and his diabo- lisms , he will enchant us with his grace , melt us with his tenderness ...
... variety of powers , in consequence of those varieties of his own , in which after shaking us with his terrors , or shocking us with his resentments and his diabo- lisms , he will enchant us with his grace , melt us with his tenderness ...
Page 61
... variety , he has fallen into no versification at all , and become lame and prosaical . The only approach that he ever made to the poetical character was in some pleasing and even pathetic lines in the notes to his Mæviad , beginning I ...
... variety , he has fallen into no versification at all , and become lame and prosaical . The only approach that he ever made to the poetical character was in some pleasing and even pathetic lines in the notes to his Mæviad , beginning I ...
Page 84
... variety of existing causes , among which are the accumulation of men in cities , and the ne- cessary uniformity of their occupations — and the consequent craving for extraordinary incident , which the present state of the world is quick ...
... variety of existing causes , among which are the accumulation of men in cities , and the ne- cessary uniformity of their occupations — and the consequent craving for extraordinary incident , which the present state of the world is quick ...
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... variety of names , which the fondness of popular admiration , in all countries , has lavished upon the beautiful little tri - coloured violet , commonly called the Heart's- ease . * It is pleasant to light upon a universal favour . ite ...
... variety of names , which the fondness of popular admiration , in all countries , has lavished upon the beautiful little tri - coloured violet , commonly called the Heart's- ease . * It is pleasant to light upon a universal favour . ite ...
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