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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 midft of things , prefenting 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 midft of things , prefenting her on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day , re- volving the long ...
Page 62
... Goddess in perfon ; in like manner as the games Pythia , Ifthmia , & c . were anciently faid to be by the Gods , and as Thetis herself appearing according to Homer Odyff 24 propofed the prizes in ho- nour of her fon Achilles . Hither ...
... Goddess in perfon ; in like manner as the games Pythia , Ifthmia , & c . were anciently faid to be by the Gods , and as Thetis herself appearing according to Homer Odyff 24 propofed the prizes in ho- nour of her fon Achilles . Hither ...
Page 63
... Goddess propofes ( 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 propofes ( 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 . O thou ! 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 , or ...
... Goddess , Dulness never dies . O thou ! 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 , or ...
Page 89
... Goddess then , o'er his anointed head , With myftic words , the facred Opium fhed ; And lo ! her Bird ( a monfter of a fowl ! Something betwixt a H *** and Owl ) 245 Perch'd on his crown . All hail ! and hail again , My Son ! the promis ...
... Goddess then , o'er his anointed head , With myftic words , the facred Opium fhed ; And lo ! her Bird ( a monfter of a fowl ! Something betwixt a H *** and Owl ) 245 Perch'd on his crown . All hail ! and hail again , My Son ! the promis ...
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