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... foul , incapable of finding words in com- mon language fuitable to its lofty conceptions , and difdaining every thing low and vulgar , was obliged to invent a language intirely new . Tropes and figures were called in to exprefs its ...
... foul , incapable of finding words in com- mon language fuitable to its lofty conceptions , and difdaining every thing low and vulgar , was obliged to invent a language intirely new . Tropes and figures were called in to exprefs its ...
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... foul . To the truth of thefe reflections , which are drawn from nature , every one will affent , who confiders how he is affected by poetry and mufic ; for no man can refift the natural impulfe he will have to dance , or agitate the ...
... foul . To the truth of thefe reflections , which are drawn from nature , every one will affent , who confiders how he is affected by poetry and mufic ; for no man can refift the natural impulfe he will have to dance , or agitate the ...
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... , or two verfes , as in the following inftance . The ling'ring foul th ' unwelcome doom receives , And , murm'ring with difdain , -the beauteous body leaves . Sometimes a verfe of this kind concludes a triplet , 12 Of English VERSE .
... , or two verfes , as in the following inftance . The ling'ring foul th ' unwelcome doom receives , And , murm'ring with difdain , -the beauteous body leaves . Sometimes a verfe of this kind concludes a triplet , 12 Of English VERSE .
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... foul , if it be juft and conformable to the fub- ject , but where that conformity is wanting , dignity will ' rather difguft than pleafe . To drefs up a mean fubject with pomp and fplendor , is like putting the robes of royal- ty on a ...
... foul , if it be juft and conformable to the fub- ject , but where that conformity is wanting , dignity will ' rather difguft than pleafe . To drefs up a mean fubject with pomp and fplendor , is like putting the robes of royal- ty on a ...
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... foul ! Yet what wert thou to him , who knew his works , Before creation form'd them , long before He meafur'd in the hollow of his hand Th ' exulting ocean , and the highest heav'ns * The Longitude . He comprehended with a span , and ...
... foul ! Yet what wert thou to him , who knew his works , Before creation form'd them , long before He meafur'd in the hollow of his hand Th ' exulting ocean , and the highest heav'ns * The Longitude . He comprehended with a span , and ...
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