The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... some revifion , he afterwards published . He tranflated likewise the Epifle of Sappho to Phaon , and Dryope and Pomona , from Ovid , which he afterwards printed . He was also tempted , by " Dryden's Fables , " to try his skill in ...
... some revifion , he afterwards published . He tranflated likewise the Epifle of Sappho to Phaon , and Dryope and Pomona , from Ovid , which he afterwards printed . He was also tempted , by " Dryden's Fables , " to try his skill in ...
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... Some commendations to themselves forefee . Then let us find , in your foregoing page , The celebrating poems of the age ; Nor by injurious fcruples think it fit , To hide their judgments who applaud your wit- : But let their pens to ...
... Some commendations to themselves forefee . Then let us find , in your foregoing page , The celebrating poems of the age ; Nor by injurious fcruples think it fit , To hide their judgments who applaud your wit- : But let their pens to ...
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... Some Athens perishes , some Tully bleeds . CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS . SEMICHORUS . On , tyrant love ! haft thou poffeft The prudent , learn'd , and virtuous breast ! Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim , And arts but soften us to feel ...
... Some Athens perishes , some Tully bleeds . CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS . SEMICHORUS . On , tyrant love ! haft thou poffeft The prudent , learn'd , and virtuous breast ! Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim , And arts but soften us to feel ...
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... Some few in that , but numbers err in this , Ten cenfure wrong for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verfe makes many more in profe . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none Go juft alike ...
... Some few in that , but numbers err in this , Ten cenfure wrong for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verfe makes many more in profe . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none Go juft alike ...
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... Some few in that , but numbers err in this , Ten cenfure wrong for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himself alone expofe , Now one in verfe makes many more in profe . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none Go juft alike ...
... Some few in that , but numbers err in this , Ten cenfure wrong for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himself alone expofe , Now one in verfe makes many more in profe . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none Go juft alike ...
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