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Page 193
... mentioned in my Epiftle ; which yet , I hear , the fore vanity of our pre- tenders to tafte flinches at extremely . The title you mention had been properer to that Epiftle . I have heard no criticisms . bout it , nor do I liften after ...
... mentioned in my Epiftle ; which yet , I hear , the fore vanity of our pre- tenders to tafte flinches at extremely . The title you mention had been properer to that Epiftle . I have heard no criticisms . bout it , nor do I liften after ...
Page 250
... mentioned above . Baucis and Philemon was fo much and fo often altered , at the inftigation of Addifon , who mentioned this circumstance to my father , at Magdalen College , that not above eight lines remain as they originally ftood ...
... mentioned above . Baucis and Philemon was fo much and fo often altered , at the inftigation of Addifon , who mentioned this circumstance to my father , at Magdalen College , that not above eight lines remain as they originally ftood ...
Page 340
... mentioned . There is still another beauty in Horace ; he has fuddenly , according to his manner , introduced Lucullus speaking ; " qui pof- fum , & c . " He is for ever introducing thefe little interlocutions , which give his fatires ...
... mentioned . There is still another beauty in Horace ; he has fuddenly , according to his manner , introduced Lucullus speaking ; " qui pof- fum , & c . " He is for ever introducing thefe little interlocutions , which give his fatires ...
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