The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12J. D. Cornish, 1779 - 390 pages |
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... bear . While through the mazes of their comments led , We learn not what he writes , but what they read . Yet , through these shades of undistinguish'd night Appear'd fome glimmering intervals of light ; Till mangled by a vile ...
... bear . While through the mazes of their comments led , We learn not what he writes , but what they read . Yet , through these shades of undistinguish'd night Appear'd fome glimmering intervals of light ; Till mangled by a vile ...
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... bear the light ; To grace my numbers , and that Mufe to aid , Who fings the Poet that has done him right . III . It long has been this facred Author's fate , To lie at every dull Translator's will ; Long , long his Muse has groan'd ...
... bear the light ; To grace my numbers , and that Mufe to aid , Who fings the Poet that has done him right . III . It long has been this facred Author's fate , To lie at every dull Translator's will ; Long , long his Muse has groan'd ...
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... bear them in my heart . Yet I have no reason to complain of fortune , fince in the midst of that abun- dance I could not poffibly have chosen better , than the worthy fon of fo illuftrious a father . He was the pa- tron of my manhood ...
... bear them in my heart . Yet I have no reason to complain of fortune , fince in the midst of that abun- dance I could not poffibly have chosen better , than the worthy fon of fo illuftrious a father . He was the pa- tron of my manhood ...
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... modeftly contents himself with the fecond place , and glories only in being the first who tranfplanted Pastoral into his own country ; and brought VOL . V. C brought it there to bear as happily as the cherry DEDICATION . 17.
... modeftly contents himself with the fecond place , and glories only in being the first who tranfplanted Pastoral into his own country ; and brought VOL . V. C brought it there to bear as happily as the cherry DEDICATION . 17.
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... bear criticism . It is no wonder that rolling down through fo many barbarous ages , from the spring of Virgil , it bears along with it the filth and ordure of the Goths and Vandals . Neither will I mention Monfieur Fontenelle , the ...
... bear criticism . It is no wonder that rolling down through fo many barbarous ages , from the spring of Virgil , it bears along with it the filth and ordure of the Goths and Vandals . Neither will I mention Monfieur Fontenelle , the ...
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