The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12J. D. Cornish, 1779 - 390 pages |
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... POETS . WITH 245308 PREFACE S , BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL , BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . VOLUME THE SEVENTEENTH . LOND ONE PRINTED BY J. D. CORNISH ; FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J. RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T. PAYNE , L ...
... POETS . WITH 245308 PREFACE S , BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL , BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . VOLUME THE SEVENTEENTH . LOND ONE PRINTED BY J. D. CORNISH ; FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J. RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T. PAYNE , L ...
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... poetic fire . II . O could I find it now ; --- -Would Virgil's fhade But for a while vouchfafe to 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 ...
... poetic fire . II . O could I find it now ; --- -Would Virgil's fhade But for a while vouchfafe to 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 ...
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... poetic wife , One Mufe embrac'd , and married for his life . By the stale thing his appetite was cloy'd , His fancy leffen'd , and his fire destroy'd . But nature grown extravagantly kind , With all her treasures did adorn your mind ...
... poetic wife , One Mufe embrac'd , and married for his life . By the stale thing his appetite was cloy'd , His fancy leffen'd , and his fire destroy'd . But nature grown extravagantly kind , With all her treasures did adorn your mind ...
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... that artift , Sir , and all his powers , Making the beft of Roman Poets ours ; With fuch effect , we know not which to call The imitation , which th ' original . What What Virgil lent , you pay in equal weight , MR . DRY D. E N.
... that artift , Sir , and all his powers , Making the beft of Roman Poets ours ; With fuch effect , we know not which to call The imitation , which th ' original . What What Virgil lent , you pay in equal weight , MR . DRY D. E N.
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