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Page 61
... Goddess is defcribed , with her chief attendants and officers , her functions , operations , and effects . Then the poem hafts into the midst of things , presenting her on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day , re- volving the long ...
... Goddess is defcribed , with her chief attendants and officers , her functions , operations , and effects . Then the poem hafts into the midst of things , presenting her on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day , re- volving the long ...
Page 63
... Goddess proposes ( with great propriety ) an exercise not of their parts but their pati- ence ; in hearing the works of two voluminous authors , one in verfe and the other in profe , deliberately read , without fleeping : The various ...
... Goddess proposes ( with great propriety ) an exercise not of their parts but their pati- ence ; in hearing the works of two voluminous authors , one in verfe and the other in profe , deliberately read , without fleeping : The various ...
Page 71
... Goddess , Dulness never dies . 15 O thon ! whatever Title please thine ear , Dean , Drapier , Bickerftaff , or Gulliver ! Whether thou , chufe Cervantes ' ferious air , 20 Or laugh and shake in Rab'lais eafy Chair , Or praise the Court ...
... Goddess , Dulness never dies . 15 O thon ! whatever Title please thine ear , Dean , Drapier , Bickerftaff , or Gulliver ! Whether thou , chufe Cervantes ' ferious air , 20 Or laugh and shake in Rab'lais eafy Chair , Or praise the Court ...
Page 89
... Goddess then , o'er his anointed head , With myftic words , the facred Opium fhed ; And lo ! her Bird ( a monster of a fowl ! Something betwixt a H *** and Owl ) 245 Perch'd on his crown . All hail ! and hail againg My Son ! the promis ...
... Goddess then , o'er his anointed head , With myftic words , the facred Opium fhed ; And lo ! her Bird ( a monster of a fowl ! Something betwixt a H *** and Owl ) 245 Perch'd on his crown . All hail ! and hail againg My Son ! the promis ...
Page 96
... Goddess conveys it to the feat of Jupiter . Tho ' he lofes the prize , he gains the Victory ; the great Mother her felf comforts him , the infpires him with expe- dients , the honours him with an immortal prefent ( fuch as Achilles ...
... Goddess conveys it to the feat of Jupiter . Tho ' he lofes the prize , he gains the Victory ; the great Mother her felf comforts him , the infpires him with expe- dients , the honours him with an immortal prefent ( fuch as Achilles ...
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