Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... hands of Doctor Lancafter then Dean of that house , occafioned his being elected into Magdalen college . He employed his first years in the study of the old Greek and Roman writers ; whofe language and manner he caught at that time of ...
... hands of Doctor Lancafter then Dean of that house , occafioned his being elected into Magdalen college . He employed his first years in the study of the old Greek and Roman writers ; whofe language and manner he caught at that time of ...
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... hand . Such a faying would have been impertinent and un- worthy Boileau , whofe difpute with Perrault turned chiefly upon fome paffages in the ancients , which he refcued from the mif - interpretations of his adversary . The true and na ...
... hand . Such a faying would have been impertinent and un- worthy Boileau , whofe difpute with Perrault turned chiefly upon fome paffages in the ancients , which he refcued from the mif - interpretations of his adversary . The true and na ...
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... hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire [ retire . Amidft a thousand fhips , and made all Greece But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames difperft on ev'ry shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory ...
... hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire [ retire . Amidft a thousand fhips , and made all Greece But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames difperft on ev'ry shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory ...
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... hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores , Her blooming mountains , and her funny fhores , With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart , The fmiles of nature , and the charms of art , While proud oppreffion in her vallies reigns ...
... hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores , Her blooming mountains , and her funny fhores , With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart , The fmiles of nature , and the charms of art , While proud oppreffion in her vallies reigns ...
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... of fortune funk thus low ; Anchifes too with friendly afpect mild Gave him his hand , fure pledge of amity , When , thus encourag'd , he began his tale . I'm one , fays he , of poor defcent , I'm 74 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... of fortune funk thus low ; Anchifes too with friendly afpect mild Gave him his hand , fure pledge of amity , When , thus encourag'd , he began his tale . I'm one , fays he , of poor defcent , I'm 74 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
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