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Page 27
... less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every ...
... less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every ...
Page 42
... less injurious , if it had pleased the author to put forth some of my writings under his own name , rather than his own under mine : he had been in that a more pardonable plagiary , and had done less wrong by robbery , than he does by ...
... less injurious , if it had pleased the author to put forth some of my writings under his own name , rather than his own under mine : he had been in that a more pardonable plagiary , and had done less wrong by robbery , than he does by ...
Page 43
... less space it animates . And , as Statius says of little Tydeus2 , -Totos infusa per artus Major in exiguo regnabat corpore virtus . I am not ignorant , that by saying this of others , I expose myself to some raillery , for not using ...
... less space it animates . And , as Statius says of little Tydeus2 , -Totos infusa per artus Major in exiguo regnabat corpore virtus . I am not ignorant , that by saying this of others , I expose myself to some raillery , for not using ...
Page 62
... less than fasces deems to be ; Though he in many a place Turns Lilly oftener than his gowns , Till at the last he make the nouns Fight with the verbs apace ; Nay , though he can , in a poetic heat , Figures , born since , out of poor ...
... less than fasces deems to be ; Though he in many a place Turns Lilly oftener than his gowns , Till at the last he make the nouns Fight with the verbs apace ; Nay , though he can , in a poetic heat , Figures , born since , out of poor ...
Page 67
... less ; Less women love ' t , either in love or dress . A thousand different shapes it bears , Comely in thousand shapes appears . Yonder we saw it plain ; and here ' tis now , Like spirits , in a place we know not how . London , that ...
... less ; Less women love ' t , either in love or dress . A thousand different shapes it bears , Comely in thousand shapes appears . Yonder we saw it plain ; and here ' tis now , Like spirits , in a place we know not how . London , that ...
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