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... poetry and the arts have more eminently flourished in fome particular ages and nations , than in others , few have ... poetry , yet never pro- duced but one great epic poet ? While on the י s , as it g to be the im- rted 84 ESSAY ON THE ...
... poetry and the arts have more eminently flourished in fome particular ages and nations , than in others , few have ... poetry , yet never pro- duced but one great epic poet ? While on the י s , as it g to be the im- rted 84 ESSAY ON THE ...
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... poetry bid faireft to fuc- ceed at prefent , which treat of things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- fcriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent ...
... poetry bid faireft to fuc- ceed at prefent , which treat of things , not men ; which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this fort is didactic and de- fcriptive poetry . Accordingly the moderns have produced many excellent ...
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... poetic species of poetry ; whence it is manifeft , that good fenfe and judgment were his characteristical excellencies , rather than fancy and inven- tion ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock , and Eloifa , can be thought to ...
... poetic species of poetry ; whence it is manifeft , that good fenfe and judgment were his characteristical excellencies , rather than fancy and inven- tion ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock , and Eloifa , can be thought to ...
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