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But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as ...
But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as ...
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Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the familiar part of ...
Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the familiar part of ...
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ally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness . ... He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ...
ally invest himself with grace ; but his natural port is gigantick loftiness . ... He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ...
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