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Pagina 46
His death was occafioned by a singular accident * he ; • There is something remarkable in the circumftances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY 4 c of he paid a viật on foot with 46 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
His death was occafioned by a singular accident * he ; • There is something remarkable in the circumftances that occafioned the deaths of three others of our poets . OTWAY 4 c of he paid a viật on foot with 46 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Pagina 47
On their return home they mistook their way , and were obliged to pass the whole night exposed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a fevere cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . i The verses on Silence are a fen ...
On their return home they mistook their way , and were obliged to pass the whole night exposed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a fevere cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . i The verses on Silence are a fen ...
Pagina 52
In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city shower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the same species with the piece before ...
In this way of writing , Swift excelled ; witness his description of a morning in the city , of a city shower , of the house of Baucis and Philemon , and the verses on his own death . These are of the same species with the piece before ...
Pagina 69
From burning funs when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempefts sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep I quote these lines as an example of energy of ftile , and of Pope's manner of compresfing ...
From burning funs when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempefts sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep I quote these lines as an example of energy of ftile , and of Pope's manner of compresfing ...
Pagina 97
The vegetables by their death , sustain the animals ; and the animal bodies diffolved , enrich the earth , and raise again the vegetable world . The numerous insects are reduced by the superior kinds of birds and beasts : And these ...
The vegetables by their death , sustain the animals ; and the animal bodies diffolved , enrich the earth , and raise again the vegetable world . The numerous insects are reduced by the superior kinds of birds and beasts : And these ...
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