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This expedient proved successful : whether shame still survived though virtue
was extinct , or whether her relations had more delicacy than herself , and
imagined that some of the darts which Satire might point at her would glance
upon them ...
This expedient proved successful : whether shame still survived though virtue
was extinct , or whether her relations had more delicacy than herself , and
imagined that some of the darts which Satire might point at her would glance
upon them ...
Page lxvii
ardour of imagination , and as it can be delivered only from memory , may be
imperfectly represented ; so that the picture at first aggravated , and then
unskilfully copied , may be justly suspected to retain no great dissemblance of the
original .
ardour of imagination , and as it can be delivered only from memory , may be
imperfectly represented ; so that the picture at first aggravated , and then
unskilfully copied , may be justly suspected to retain no great dissemblance of the
original .
Page 108
Before conception can employ the tongue ; And mould the dudile images to
found , Before imagination stands display'd , Thinc eye the future eloquence can
read , Yet unarray'd with speech . Thou , mighty Lord ! 25 Hast moulded man from
his ...
Before conception can employ the tongue ; And mould the dudile images to
found , Before imagination stands display'd , Thinc eye the future eloquence can
read , Yet unarray'd with speech . Thou , mighty Lord ! 25 Hast moulded man from
his ...
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To the Right Hon Sir Robert Walpole | 151 |
To Mr John Dyer a Painter c | 159 |
To Aaron Hill Esq with the Tragedy of | 165 |
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 88-90 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
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