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Page 139
... easily deceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first ...
... easily deceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first ...
Page 191
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
Page 316
... easily excused . Pope , in one of his Letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , owns that such criticks can intimidate him , nay almost persuade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age deserves ...
... easily excused . Pope , in one of his Letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , owns that such criticks can intimidate him , nay almost persuade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age deserves ...
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