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... last two copies of verfes , 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. Befides the laft verfes on Fear , Scott wrote an ode on the fame ...
... last two copies of verfes , 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. Befides the laft verfes on Fear , Scott wrote an ode on the fame ...
Page lxxix
... last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would vanish from remem- brance . * " From the time of Mr. Scott's fecond marriage till his death , he feems to have enjoyed a life of great tranquillity ; gra- tified with ...
... last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would vanish from remem- brance . * " From the time of Mr. Scott's fecond marriage till his death , he feems to have enjoyed a life of great tranquillity ; gra- tified with ...
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... last couplet is so smooth and sweet , that the paffage , however celebrated , has not been praised above its merit . • It has beauty peculiar to itself , and ' must be numbered among those feli- · cities , which cannot be produced at ...
... last couplet is so smooth and sweet , that the paffage , however celebrated , has not been praised above its merit . • It has beauty peculiar to itself , and ' must be numbered among those feli- · cities , which cannot be produced at ...
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... last two lines indeed have more mu- fick than Denham's can commonly boast : The stream is so transparent , pure , and clear , That had the felf - enamour'd youth gaz'd here , So fatally deceiv'd he had not been , While he the bottom ...
... last two lines indeed have more mu- fick than Denham's can commonly boast : The stream is so transparent , pure , and clear , That had the felf - enamour'd youth gaz'd here , So fatally deceiv'd he had not been , While he the bottom ...
Page 52
... last infirmity of noble mind ) To fcorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find , And think to burft out into fudden blaze , Comes the blind fury with th ' abhorred shears , And flits the thin - fpun ...
... last infirmity of noble mind ) To fcorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find , And think to burft out into fudden blaze , Comes the blind fury with th ' abhorred shears , And flits the thin - fpun ...
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