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Joseph Warton. have raised two or three mounts , because his fituation is all a plain , and nothing can please without variety . ” MR . WALPOLE , in his elegant and en- tertaining History of Modern Gardening , has clearly ... because ...
Joseph Warton. have raised two or three mounts , because his fituation is all a plain , and nothing can please without variety . ” MR . WALPOLE , in his elegant and en- tertaining History of Modern Gardening , has clearly ... because ...
Page 270
... because admiration is turned into affection . In the very enter- taining memoirs of the life of Racine ( published by his fon ) we find no paffage * more amufing and interefting , than where that great poet fends an excuse to Mon ...
... because admiration is turned into affection . In the very enter- taining memoirs of the life of Racine ( published by his fon ) we find no paffage * more amufing and interefting , than where that great poet fends an excuse to Mon ...
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... because his imagina- tion was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it not , and because he gave not so many proofs of this talent as of the other . This turn of mind led him to ad- mire French models ; he ftudied Boileau ...
... because his imagina- tion was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it not , and because he gave not so many proofs of this talent as of the other . This turn of mind led him to ad- mire French models ; he ftudied Boileau ...
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