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Page 405
... poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis all that can raise horror and detestation ; and whatever good was withheld ...
... poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis all that can raise horror and detestation ; and whatever good was withheld ...
Page 445
... poet , and a worse critick . His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be confessed that it has not often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of sentiment that animates diction ...
... poet , and a worse critick . His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be confessed that it has not often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of sentiment that animates diction ...
Page 477
... poet ; and , if we credit the testimony of his con- temporaries , he was a poet of no vulgar rank . But favour and flattery are now at an end ; criticism is no longer softened by his bounties or awed by his splendour , and , being able ...
... poet ; and , if we credit the testimony of his con- temporaries , he was a poet of no vulgar rank . But favour and flattery are now at an end ; criticism is no longer softened by his bounties or awed by his splendour , and , being able ...
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