Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism ; The Moral EssaysLongmans, 1896 - 114 страница |
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... eyes , Cavil you may , but never criticise . Read themi rks your study and delight , lay , and meditate by night ; 120 The ` ce for your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the Muses upward to their spring . Still with ...
... eyes , Cavil you may , but never criticise . Read themi rks your study and delight , lay , and meditate by night ; 120 The ` ce for your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the Muses upward to their spring . Still with ...
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... eyes , Which out of nature's common order rise , The shapeless rock , or hanging precipice . But though the ancients thus their rules invade , ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend ...
... eyes , Which out of nature's common order rise , The shapeless rock , or hanging precipice . But though the ancients thus their rules invade , ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend ...
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... The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th ' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes , peep o'er hills , and Alps on Alps arise ! Hills 210 220 A perfect judge will read each work of wit With 8 Essay on Criticism .
... The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th ' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes , peep o'er hills , and Alps on Alps arise ! Hills 210 220 A perfect judge will read each work of wit With 8 Essay on Criticism .
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... eye we beauty call , But the joint force and full result of all . judgment bu by whole partinot Thus when we view some ... eyes ; No monstrous height , or breadth , or length , appear ; The whole at once is bold and regular . Whoever ...
... eye we beauty call , But the joint force and full result of all . judgment bu by whole partinot Thus when we view some ... eyes ; No monstrous height , or breadth , or length , appear ; The whole at once is bold and regular . Whoever ...
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... eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now sighs steal ' out , and tears begin to flow : Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found , And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow , And what ...
... eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now sighs steal ' out , and tears begin to flow : Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found , And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow , And what ...
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