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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... still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing fide . If Mævius fcribble in Apollo's fpite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some have at first for wits , then poets paft ; Turn'd critics next , and ...
... still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing fide . If Mævius fcribble in Apollo's fpite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some have at first for wits , then poets paft ; Turn'd critics next , and ...
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... Still with itfelf compar'd , his text perufe ; And let your comment be the Mantuan muse . When first young Maro , in his boundless mind A work t'outlaft immortal Rome defign'd , 131 Perhaps he fecm'd above the critic's law , And but ...
... Still with itfelf compar'd , his text perufe ; And let your comment be the Mantuan muse . When first young Maro , in his boundless mind A work t'outlaft immortal Rome defign'd , 131 Perhaps he fecm'd above the critic's law , And but ...
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... Still green with bays each ancient altar ftands , Above the reach of facrilegious hands ; Secure from flames , from envy's fiercer rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . 180 190 See from each clime the learn'd their incenfe ...
... Still green with bays each ancient altar ftands , Above the reach of facrilegious hands ; Secure from flames , from envy's fiercer rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . 180 190 See from each clime the learn'd their incenfe ...
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... still the true . Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own , But catch the spreading notion of the town ; They reafon and conclude by precedent , And own ftale nonsense which they ne'er invent . Some judge of authors names , not works ...
... still the true . Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own , But catch the spreading notion of the town ; They reafon and conclude by precedent , And own ftale nonsense which they ne'er invent . Some judge of authors names , not works ...
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... still humming on , their drowsy courfe they keep , And lafh'd fo long , like tops , are lafh'd afleep . Falle fteps but help them to renew the race , As , after ftumbling , jades will mend their pace . What crowds of thefe ...
... still humming on , their drowsy courfe they keep , And lafh'd fo long , like tops , are lafh'd afleep . Falle fteps but help them to renew the race , As , after ftumbling , jades will mend their pace . What crowds of thefe ...
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