The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... ancient Genius , o'er its ruins spread , Shakes off the dust , and rears his reverend head . Then Sculpture and her sister - arts revive ; Stones leaped to form , and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A ...
... ancient Genius , o'er its ruins spread , Shakes off the dust , and rears his reverend head . Then Sculpture and her sister - arts revive ; Stones leaped to form , and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A ...
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... ancient learning from the worms , and graves , and dust of manuscripts . Now , the races of these two have been for some ages utterly extinct ; and besides , to discourse any farther of them would not be at all to my purpose . The third ...
... ancient learning from the worms , and graves , and dust of manuscripts . Now , the races of these two have been for some ages utterly extinct ; and besides , to discourse any farther of them would not be at all to my purpose . The third ...
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... ancient and illustrious as I have deduced . Now , if I can clearly make out on the contrary , that the most ancient writers have particularly described both the person and the office of a true critic , agree- able to the definition laid ...
... ancient and illustrious as I have deduced . Now , if I can clearly make out on the contrary , that the most ancient writers have particularly described both the person and the office of a true critic , agree- able to the definition laid ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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