The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... tell a flugga : d that he has loft an hour in the morning , which he can never recover , you tell him the truth , yet there is no beauty or wit in it , because the thought is trite and common ; but in Sir **** ' s remark on his friend ...
... tell a flugga : d that he has loft an hour in the morning , which he can never recover , you tell him the truth , yet there is no beauty or wit in it , because the thought is trite and common ; but in Sir **** ' s remark on his friend ...
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... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . We cannot leave Milton , without pointing out other paf- ages that are as fublime as those we have already ...
... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . We cannot leave Milton , without pointing out other paf- ages that are as fublime as those we have already ...
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... tell , Tell if you faw , how came I thus , how here ? Under his forming hands a creature grew , Man like , but different fex : So lovely fair , That what feem'd fair in all the world , seem'd now Mean , or in her fumm'd up , in her 30 ...
... tell , Tell if you faw , how came I thus , how here ? Under his forming hands a creature grew , Man like , but different fex : So lovely fair , That what feem'd fair in all the world , seem'd now Mean , or in her fumm'd up , in her 30 ...
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... tell you fo fhould be an offence : thus , rather than violate your modefty , I must be wanting to your other virtues ; and to gratify one good quality , do wrong to a thousand . Compliments that are thrown obliquely , and under the ...
... tell you fo fhould be an offence : thus , rather than violate your modefty , I must be wanting to your other virtues ; and to gratify one good quality , do wrong to a thousand . Compliments that are thrown obliquely , and under the ...
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... tell thee , friend ; Make it at top both wide and fit To hold a budget full of wit , And point it at the End . We fhall clofe this chapter with an Epigram written on the well - known ftory of Apollo and Daphne , by Mr. Smart : When ...
... tell thee , friend ; Make it at top both wide and fit To hold a budget full of wit , And point it at the End . We fhall clofe this chapter with an Epigram written on the well - known ftory of Apollo and Daphne , by Mr. Smart : When ...
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