The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12J. D. Cornish, 1779 - 390 pages |
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... said was naufeous , and a crowd was troublesome ; a quiet privacy was their ambition . Some few of them I believe faid this in earnest , and were making a provi- fion against future want , that they might enjoy their age with ease they ...
... said was naufeous , and a crowd was troublesome ; a quiet privacy was their ambition . Some few of them I believe faid this in earnest , and were making a provi- fion against future want , that they might enjoy their age with ease they ...
Page 192
... said : O fifter ! not with caufelefs fear poffeft , 500 No ftranger voice difturbs thy tender breast . ' Tis Aristæus , ' tis thy darling fon , Who to his careless mother makes his moan . Near his paternal stream he sadly stands , 505 ...
... said : O fifter ! not with caufelefs fear poffeft , 500 No ftranger voice difturbs thy tender breast . ' Tis Aristæus , ' tis thy darling fon , Who to his careless mother makes his moan . Near his paternal stream he sadly stands , 505 ...
Page 201
... said , But in the billows plung'd his hoary head ; And where he leap'd , the waves in circles widely fpread . 765 The nymph return'd , her drooping fon to chear , And bade him banish his fuperfluous fear ; For now , faid fhe , the cause ...
... said , But in the billows plung'd his hoary head ; And where he leap'd , the waves in circles widely fpread . 765 The nymph return'd , her drooping fon to chear , And bade him banish his fuperfluous fear ; For now , faid fhe , the cause ...
Page 215
... said already more than I intended on this fubject , and should fear it might be turned against me ; that I plead for the pre- eminence of epic poetry , because I have taken fome P 4 pains pains in tranflating Virgil ; if this were the ...
... said already more than I intended on this fubject , and should fear it might be turned against me ; that I plead for the pre- eminence of epic poetry , because I have taken fome P 4 pains pains in tranflating Virgil ; if this were the ...
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... said that he borrowed them from Homer , any more than Apollo , Diana , and the reft , whom he ufes as he finds occafion for them , as the Grecian poet did : but he invents the occafions for which he ufes them . Venus , after the ...
... said that he borrowed them from Homer , any more than Apollo , Diana , and the reft , whom he ufes as he finds occafion for them , as the Grecian poet did : but he invents the occafions for which he ufes them . Venus , after the ...
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