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Page 181
... observed , that many years before this epiftle was written , and before Kent was employed as an improver of grounds , even fo early as the year 1713 , * I cannot forbear adding , in this place , the following anecdote from POPE to Mr ...
... observed , that many years before this epiftle was written , and before Kent was employed as an improver of grounds , even fo early as the year 1713 , * I cannot forbear adding , in this place , the following anecdote from POPE to Mr ...
Page 227
... observed that a reader feldom peruies a book with pleafure , ' till he knows whe- ther the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cholerick difpofition , married or a batchelor . " I will add , at the hazard of its being ...
... observed that a reader feldom peruies a book with pleafure , ' till he knows whe- ther the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cholerick difpofition , married or a batchelor . " I will add , at the hazard of its being ...
Page 347
... observed , in general , that the imitations of these two epiftles of the fe- cond book of Horace , are finished with fo much accuracy and care , and abound in fo many applications and allufions moft nicely and luckily adapted to the ...
... observed , in general , that the imitations of these two epiftles of the fe- cond book of Horace , are finished with fo much accuracy and care , and abound in fo many applications and allufions moft nicely and luckily adapted to the ...
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