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... poet , being from his infancy of a sickly ha- bit , was educated mostly at home ; and his father being a rigid catholic , and attached to the cause of James II . very naturally imparted to his son those principles of religion and ...
... poet , being from his infancy of a sickly ha- bit , was educated mostly at home ; and his father being a rigid catholic , and attached to the cause of James II . very naturally imparted to his son those principles of religion and ...
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Alexander Pope. a printed Letter of the that if he goes youth of our Poet , says ( in : Character of Mr. Wycherley ) , on as he has begun in his Pastoral way , as Virgil first tried his strength , we may hope to see Eng- Fish poetry vie ...
Alexander Pope. a printed Letter of the that if he goes youth of our Poet , says ( in : Character of Mr. Wycherley ) , on as he has begun in his Pastoral way , as Virgil first tried his strength , we may hope to see Eng- Fish poetry vie ...
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... poet's prayer ; Stern Proserpine relented , And gave him back the fair . Thus song could prevail O'er death , and o'er hell , conquest how hard and how glorious ! Though fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet music ...
... poet's prayer ; Stern Proserpine relented , And gave him back the fair . Thus song could prevail O'er death , and o'er hell , conquest how hard and how glorious ! Though fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet music ...
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... poet's fire , And taught the world with reason to admire . Then criticism the muse's handmaid prov'd , To dress her ... poets their own arms they turn'd Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' pothecaries , taught ...
... poet's fire , And taught the world with reason to admire . Then criticism the muse's handmaid prov'd , To dress her ... poets their own arms they turn'd Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' pothecaries , taught ...
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... new are tried , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside . But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough with them , is right or wrong : In the bright muse though thousand charms con- spire , D2 ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 57.
... new are tried , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside . But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough with them , is right or wrong : In the bright muse though thousand charms con- spire , D2 ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 57.
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