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... ruins of Memphis , is a fine natural image , and Athens weeping by the fide of Ilyffus , over her deferted schools , is a noble profopopoiea . V. 146. Amid the tow'ry ruins , huge , fupreme , The enormous amphitheatre behold ...
... ruins of Memphis , is a fine natural image , and Athens weeping by the fide of Ilyffus , over her deferted schools , is a noble profopopoiea . V. 146. Amid the tow'ry ruins , huge , fupreme , The enormous amphitheatre behold ...
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... ruins hoar , While winds and tempefts sweep his various lyre , How sweet thy diapafon Melancholy ! K The The fight of magnificent ruins , with the folemn noise CRITICAL ESSAYS . 145.
... ruins hoar , While winds and tempefts sweep his various lyre , How sweet thy diapafon Melancholy ! K The The fight of magnificent ruins , with the folemn noise CRITICAL ESSAYS . 145.
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John Scott. The fight of magnificent ruins , with the folemn noise produced by the wind paf- fing through them , could not fail to affect a serious mind in the manner defcribed in the above quotation , * and on the last circumftance our ...
John Scott. The fight of magnificent ruins , with the folemn noise produced by the wind paf- fing through them , could not fail to affect a serious mind in the manner defcribed in the above quotation , * and on the last circumftance our ...
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