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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pathetick, but above all, the Verfe and Numbers fo Charming and Natural, that it is almoft beyond Comparifon. The Mufe difdains1 Thofe Links and Chains, Meafures and Rules of Vulgar Strains, And o'er the Laws of Harmony a Sovereign Queen she reigns. I FIND no English Author, Ancient or Modern, whofe Elegies may be compar'd with this, in refpect to the Elegance of Stile, or Smoothnefs of Rhime; and for the affecting Part, I will leave your Readers to judge, if ever they read any Lines, that would fooner make them draw their Breath and Sigh, if not fhed Tears, than thefe following. Come let us mourn, for we have loft a Wife, a Daughter, and a Sifter, Who has lately taken Flight, and greatly we have mift her. In another place, Some little Time before fhe yielded up her Breath, She faid, I ne'er fhall hear one Sermon more on Earth. She kift her Hufband fome little Time before fhe expir'd, Then lean'd her Head the Pillow on, juft out of Breath and tir'd. BUT the Threefold Appellation in the firft Line ? a Wife, a Daughter, and a Sifter, muft not pafs unobferved. That Line in the celebrated Watts, GUNSTON the Juft, the Generous, and the Young, is nothing Comparable to it. The latter only mentions 1 Watts. three Qualifications of one Perfon who was deceafed, which therefore could raife Grief and Compaffion but for One. Whereas the former, (our moft excellent Poet) gives his Reader a Sort of an Idea of the Death of Three Perfons, viz. ? a Wife, a Daughter, and a Sifter, which is Three Times as great a Lofs as the Death of One, and confequently muft raife Three Times as much Grief and Compaffion in the Reader. I SHOULD be very much ftraitened for Room, if I fhould attempt to difcover even half the Excellencies of this Elegy which are o...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217404730
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217404731
  • Publisher Date: 10 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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