The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 432
... fall , she will fall by no ignoble hand . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France , then the dauphiness , at Ver- sailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb , which she hardly seemed to touch , a more ...
... fall , she will fall by no ignoble hand . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France , then the dauphiness , at Ver- sailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb , which she hardly seemed to touch , a more ...
Page 452
... fall , the river's flow , The woody valleys warm and low ; The windy summit , wild and high , Roughly rushing on the ... falling keeps , So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find . ' Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; ' Tis ...
... fall , the river's flow , The woody valleys warm and low ; The windy summit , wild and high , Roughly rushing on the ... falling keeps , So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find . ' Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; ' Tis ...
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... fall gains in intensity ; and he calls our attention to various modes of contrast : between the " dim- ming " effect of falling snow and the " brightness " of the snow fallen ; similarly , between the dimness of " the languid sun ” and ...
... fall gains in intensity ; and he calls our attention to various modes of contrast : between the " dim- ming " effect of falling snow and the " brightness " of the snow fallen ; similarly , between the dimness of " the languid sun ” and ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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