Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 pagina's |
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Pagina xxi
... verses in the two following inftances , which are all that can be traced with certainty . VERSES Occafioned by the DESCRIPTION of the ĈOLIAN HARP , in February Magazine , 1754 . Untaught o'er ftrings to draw the rofin'd bow , Or melting ...
... verses in the two following inftances , which are all that can be traced with certainty . VERSES Occafioned by the DESCRIPTION of the ĈOLIAN HARP , in February Magazine , 1754 . Untaught o'er ftrings to draw the rofin'd bow , Or melting ...
Pagina xxiv
... verses , which are fuperior to the first , are spirited and poetical : it is obfervable , that with the two first he has ufed the fignature , R. S. Besides the last verses on Fear , Scott wrote an ode on the fame fubject about the year ...
... verses , which are fuperior to the first , are spirited and poetical : it is obfervable , that with the two first he has ufed the fignature , R. S. Besides the last verses on Fear , Scott wrote an ode on the fame fubject about the year ...
Pagina xxv
... verses , in- titled To AN ABSENT FRIEND are ad- dreffed . While thou far hence on Albion's fouthern fhore , View'ft her white rocks , and hear'ft her ocean roar ; Thro ' scenes , where we together ftray'd , I ftray , And think o'er talk ...
... verses , in- titled To AN ABSENT FRIEND are ad- dreffed . While thou far hence on Albion's fouthern fhore , View'ft her white rocks , and hear'ft her ocean roar ; Thro ' scenes , where we together ftray'd , I ftray , And think o'er talk ...
Pagina xxxi
... verse , or the amiable ftrain of benevolence and piety that runs through the whole . Our author's acquaintance was now confiderably enlarged , he was introduced to feveral of the literati , with whom he had little or no connection ...
... verse , or the amiable ftrain of benevolence and piety that runs through the whole . Our author's acquaintance was now confiderably enlarged , he was introduced to feveral of the literati , with whom he had little or no connection ...
Pagina liv
... of the Monthly Review fpeak of it in very high terms of approbation . This poem is written in blank verse , the genius of which Scott profeffed to have particularly ftudied , and I think he exhibits a have liv THE LIFE OF.
... of the Monthly Review fpeak of it in very high terms of approbation . This poem is written in blank verse , the genius of which Scott profeffed to have particularly ftudied , and I think he exhibits a have liv THE LIFE OF.
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