The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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... scene to feize the imagination with rapture ; a poet's language would have run fpontaneously into metre at the fight of it ; " What a fubject , " faid I within myself , " is " here present for thofe ingenious bards , who " have the ...
... scene to feize the imagination with rapture ; a poet's language would have run fpontaneously into metre at the fight of it ; " What a fubject , " faid I within myself , " is " here present for thofe ingenious bards , who " have the ...
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... scene ? And what has Nature for the fons of men Better provided than this happy ifle ? Mark ! how he's girded by her ... scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with profperity , but warm C VOL . IV . With With ...
... scene ? And what has Nature for the fons of men Better provided than this happy ifle ? Mark ! how he's girded by her ... scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with profperity , but warm C VOL . IV . With With ...
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... scene Glitters awhile and vanishes at once . Not fuch the tints that Albion's landscape wears , Her mantle dipt in never - fading green , Keeps fresh its vernal honours thro ' the year ; Soft dew - drops nurse her rose's maiden bloom ...
... scene Glitters awhile and vanishes at once . Not fuch the tints that Albion's landscape wears , Her mantle dipt in never - fading green , Keeps fresh its vernal honours thro ' the year ; Soft dew - drops nurse her rose's maiden bloom ...
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... scenes they made choice of for their feveral pictures . " He tells us that Apelles was then living and in the vigour of his genius , though advanced in years ; he defcribes the fcene chofen for his compofition minutely , and it appears ...
... scenes they made choice of for their feveral pictures . " He tells us that Apelles was then living and in the vigour of his genius , though advanced in years ; he defcribes the fcene chofen for his compofition minutely , and it appears ...
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... scene , though under a different character , and cries out— “ I am now far advanced in the evening " of life's day , and what is there in the nature " of man , that I should liken it to that of wine , << feeing that old age , which ...
... scene , though under a different character , and cries out— “ I am now far advanced in the evening " of life's day , and what is there in the nature " of man , that I should liken it to that of wine , << feeing that old age , which ...
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