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| | §13. Jagos "Edge-Hill". V. Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The ... |
 | | At noon, afternoon and evening, from different standpoints on the hill, his eye, to some extent aided by imagination, roams over other portions of the county and dwells upon its principal towns and gentlemens seats. |
 | | When the fourth book has run a third of its course, and the survey of Warwickshire has been completed by the compliments to the owners of Arbury and Packington, Jago turns the sober evening hour to account by reviewing the scene with moral eye, and descants upon the instability of human affairs. |
 | | In such passages, he may have felt the influence of Thomson; but his catalogues have little picturesqueness or colour; while his verse, although it is not without the accent of local association, is typical, as a whole, of the decadence of the Miltonic method of natural description in the eighteenth century. |
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