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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... muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common swain's be wrought ; So , with becoming art , the players dress In fi ks the fhepherd , and the fhepherdefs ; Yet fill unchang'd the form and mode remain , Shap'd like the ...
... muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common swain's be wrought ; So , with becoming art , the players dress In fi ks the fhepherd , and the fhepherdefs ; Yet fill unchang'd the form and mode remain , Shap'd like the ...
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... muft ? Yet fare not fo muft all perufe thy lays : I cannot rival - and yet dare to praife . A thousand charms at once my thoughts engage ; Sappho's foft fweetnefs , Pindar's warmer rage , Statius ' free vigour , Virgil's ftudious care ...
... muft ? Yet fare not fo muft all perufe thy lays : I cannot rival - and yet dare to praife . A thousand charms at once my thoughts engage ; Sappho's foft fweetnefs , Pindar's warmer rage , Statius ' free vigour , Virgil's ftudious care ...
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... muft approve of a ftrong inclination : and if his genius be ever fo whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine great , he cannot at first discover it any other way , that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . than by ...
... muft approve of a ftrong inclination : and if his genius be ever fo whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine great , he cannot at first discover it any other way , that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . than by ...
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... muft give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a ge- nius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self - amusement when a man is idle or alone ; the ...
... muft give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed fome advantages accruing from a ge- nius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self - amusement when a man is idle or alone ; the ...
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... muft alike from Heaven derive their light , Thefe born to judge , as well as thofe to write . Let fuch teach others who themselves excel , And cenfure freely who have written well : Authors are partial to their wit , ' tis true ; But ...
... muft alike from Heaven derive their light , Thefe born to judge , as well as thofe to write . Let fuch teach others who themselves excel , And cenfure freely who have written well : Authors are partial to their wit , ' tis true ; But ...
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