Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips, Sampson, 1857 |
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... proud shall be ! No poem of our author's more deservedly obtained him reputation than his Essay on Criticism . Mr. Ad- dison in his Spectator , No. 253 , has celebrated it with such profuse terms of admiration , that it is really ...
... proud shall be ! No poem of our author's more deservedly obtained him reputation than his Essay on Criticism . Mr. Ad- dison in his Spectator , No. 253 , has celebrated it with such profuse terms of admiration , that it is really ...
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... proud Olympus yields a nobler sight , Though gods assembled grace his towering height , Than what more humble mountains offer here , Where , in their blessings , all those gods appear . See Pan with flocks , with fruits Pomona crown'd ...
... proud Olympus yields a nobler sight , Though gods assembled grace his towering height , Than what more humble mountains offer here , Where , in their blessings , all those gods appear . See Pan with flocks , with fruits Pomona crown'd ...
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... Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began , A mighty hunter , and his prey was man . Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name , And makes his trembling slaves the royal game . The fields are ravish'd from the industrious swains ...
... Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began , A mighty hunter , and his prey was man . Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name , And makes his trembling slaves the royal game . The fields are ravish'd from the industrious swains ...
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... proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play ...
... proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play ...
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... proud dulness joins with quality ; A constant critic at the great man's board To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord . What woeful stuff this madrigal would be , In some starved hackney'd sonnetteer , or me ! But let a lord once own ...
... proud dulness joins with quality ; A constant critic at the great man's board To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord . What woeful stuff this madrigal would be , In some starved hackney'd sonnetteer , or me ! But let a lord once own ...
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