The DunciadM. Cooper, 1970 - 235 pages |
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... Bards , like Proteus long in vain ty'd down , Escape in Monsters , and amaze the town . REMARK S. is by Poets ftyled Saturnian ; but in the Chemical language Saturn is Lead . She is faid here only to be fpreading her wings to hatch this ...
... Bards , like Proteus long in vain ty'd down , Escape in Monsters , and amaze the town . REMARK S. is by Poets ftyled Saturnian ; but in the Chemical language Saturn is Lead . She is faid here only to be fpreading her wings to hatch this ...
Page 79
... bards could raise , Twelve starv'ling bards of these degenʼrate days . All as a partridge plump , full - fed , and fair , She form'd this image of well - body'd air With pert flat eyes the window'd well its head ; A brain of feathers ...
... bards could raise , Twelve starv'ling bards of these degenʼrate days . All as a partridge plump , full - fed , and fair , She form'd this image of well - body'd air With pert flat eyes the window'd well its head ; A brain of feathers ...
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Alexander Pope. Why should I fing what bards the nightly Muse Did slumb'ring vifit , and convey to stews ; Who ... Bard infpired in this pofture , Chaucer lay infpir'd , the shape of holy men on purpose to " caufe fcandal . ” SCRIBL . VER ...
Alexander Pope. Why should I fing what bards the nightly Muse Did slumb'ring vifit , and convey to stews ; Who ... Bard infpired in this pofture , Chaucer lay infpir'd , the shape of holy men on purpose to " caufe fcandal . ” SCRIBL . VER ...
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