Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author |
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... Still the profpect wider spreads , Adds a thousand woods and meads , Still it widens , widens ftill , And finks the newly - rifen hill . Some readers may think the following alterations no improvement , but the arrangement is certainly ...
... Still the profpect wider spreads , Adds a thousand woods and meads , Still it widens , widens ftill , And finks the newly - rifen hill . Some readers may think the following alterations no improvement , but the arrangement is certainly ...
Page 107
... Still we tread the fame coarse way , The prefent's still a cloudy day . By crouding too many thoughts toge- ther , writers often produce confusion . Part of the above is uncommonly am- biguous . There is in it one couplet , which feems ...
... Still we tread the fame coarse way , The prefent's still a cloudy day . By crouding too many thoughts toge- ther , writers often produce confusion . Part of the above is uncommonly am- biguous . There is in it one couplet , which feems ...
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... Still in harmonious intercourse they liv'd The rural day , and talk'd the flowing heart , Or figh'd and look'd unutterable things . Had the lines , Devoting all , & c . ' been omitted , perhaps fome advantage would have been derived ...
... Still in harmonious intercourse they liv'd The rural day , and talk'd the flowing heart , Or figh'd and look'd unutterable things . Had the lines , Devoting all , & c . ' been omitted , perhaps fome advantage would have been derived ...
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