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" The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat sea shines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor 'Of some old temple wide. But where... "
Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry - Page 55
by Daniel Webb - 1762 - 123 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most ...

Daniel Webb - 1761 - 354 pages
...; then the ihrouds drop ; "^he downy feather on the cordage hung, .Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble...Of fome old temple, wide. IT is evident, that the poet.ftudied the effect in thefe verfes •, but he has foftened 'his artifice by the fimplicity of...
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Poems. By John Dyer, L.L.B.: Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome ...

John Dyer - 1761 - 196 pages
...fleeps : then the flirouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fealhines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here...
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW

SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...drop } The downy feather on the cordage hung, Moves no: ; the fiat fea mines like yellow gold l'u A! in the fire, or like the marble floor Of fome old...evident that the Poet ftudied the effect in thefe Verfes J but he has foftcned his artifice by the fimplicity of his lzn-> guage : had it not been for this,...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 53

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 410 pages
...fleeps i then the fhrouds drop.; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat fca mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, . In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dyer and Mallet

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 pages
...drop -, The downy .feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yeliow'gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor , I Did ever temple boaft as this, which...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...fleeps; then the fhrouds diop; . The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. THE third fet of objects, which I mentioned the found of words as capable of reprefenting, confifts...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 58

English poets - 1790 - 270 pages
...fleeps: then the fhrouds drop; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide. In old or later time, its marble floor Did Did ever temple boaft as this, which...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...ileeps : then the fnrouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 14

1801 - 446 pages
...sleeps: then the shrouds drop; The downy feather on the cordage hung Moves not — the flat sea shines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble floor Of some old temple wide! ANOB. Upon this beach King Charles the Second landed on the i6th May, 1660, about...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 pages
...; then -the ftirouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat tea fhines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble floor Of foroe old temple wide.. The third fet of objects which I mentioned the founds of •words are capable...
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