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15313	Purney, Thomas	A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)			.txt	text/plain	26176	1756	78	the pleasure afforded by the pastoral with the natural human delight Pastoral, like all Poetry, should aim at Pleasure and Profit. Pastoral, tho' a Beauty in other Poetry. But so easy and gentle a kind of Poetry is Pastoral, that 'tis not very beautiful in Tragedy, will be equally finest in Pastoral Poetry. 'Tis true indeed, as to the Difficulty of forming Pastoral Characters, most beautiful Image in Phillips, or I think any Pastoral-Writer, is of The last Line contains a Pastoral Thought, of the best Sort; as the But as those Poets whose Minds have delighted in Pastoral Images have think, who have ever had Genius's form'd for Pastoral Images, are _Ovid_ being us'd by all Pastoral-Writers show's how Beautiful they thought it: Again, if a Writer has a Genius for Pastoral he will have some Thoughts _What Kind of Pastorals would please most Universally; and delight the	./cache/15313.txt	./txt/15313.txt