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VGW(HU.752.027
30 Apr 1752:22, 31 (70)
Remarks on the Virginia Pindar continued. Our author has
display'd his talents in descriptions as much as any thing.
Some very curious ones I shall now select, in which the
ready may observe true poetical painting.
A description of God, summoning his whole creation, to
defend his rights, by destroying our author. . . [8 line
verse quoted, 2 lines text]
A description of a jig danc'd by a company of ideas in our
author's head.
While one idea dances in my brain,
Another rising drives it out again.
I loose the pleasures of conceptions past:
The gain is lost, but studious labours last.
So while on sand a man his foot-steps guides,
One foot makes way, the other backward slides. (p. 21)
. . . [1/2 column of descriptions]
A description of the devil carried to heaven by force, and
a Jubilee celebrated on the occasion, (by the order of what
Pope is not mentioned.) . . . [1 1/2 columns, heavenly
music, harps, universe joining in harmony]
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