Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips, Sampson, 1857 |
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... mankind in more strong , more beautiful , or more uncommon lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the ...
... mankind in more strong , more beautiful , or more uncommon lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the ...
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... prosperity of mankind in general . As a son of Britain , he wished those councils might be suffered by Provi dence to prevail which were rest for the interest of na native country ; but as politics was not his - a LIFE OF POPE .
... prosperity of mankind in general . As a son of Britain , he wished those councils might be suffered by Provi dence to prevail which were rest for the interest of na native country ; but as politics was not his - a LIFE OF POPE .
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... mankind by a glimmering of genius , which rendered the greatest part of them more emphatically contemptible . Pope's was the hardest task , and he has executed it with the greatest Buccess . As Mr. Dryden must undoubtedly have yielded ...
... mankind by a glimmering of genius , which rendered the greatest part of them more emphatically contemptible . Pope's was the hardest task , and he has executed it with the greatest Buccess . As Mr. Dryden must undoubtedly have yielded ...
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... mankind , and all the world but love ; I know thee , Love ! on foreign mountains bred ; Wolves gave thee suck , and savage tigers fed : Thou wert from Etna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ...
... mankind , and all the world but love ; I know thee , Love ! on foreign mountains bred ; Wolves gave thee suck , and savage tigers fed : Thou wert from Etna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ...
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... mankind his guardian care engage , The promised father of the future age . No more shall nation2 against nation rise , Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er , The brazen trumpets ...
... mankind his guardian care engage , The promised father of the future age . No more shall nation2 against nation rise , Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er , The brazen trumpets ...
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