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... behaviour 1 * Mr. Huine is of opinion , that the perufal of Spenser becomes tedious to almost all his readers . ... changed since Homer's age , and yet that poet remains still the favourite of every reader of taste and judgment .
... behaviour 1 * Mr. Huine is of opinion , that the perufal of Spenser becomes tedious to almost all his readers . ... changed since Homer's age , and yet that poet remains still the favourite of every reader of taste and judgment .
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And by their own account of themselves , they would have the reader believe that they had engrossed and monopolized all the genius , and all the honesty of the age , in which , according to their opinion , they had the misfortune to ...
And by their own account of themselves , they would have the reader believe that they had engrossed and monopolized all the genius , and all the honesty of the age , in which , according to their opinion , they had the misfortune to ...
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... with a care and assiduity , that no business or avocation ever inter.rupted : so that if he does not frequently ravish and transport his reader , yet he does not disgust him with unexpected inequalities , and absurd improprieties .
... with a care and assiduity , that no business or avocation ever inter.rupted : so that if he does not frequently ravish and transport his reader , yet he does not disgust him with unexpected inequalities , and absurd improprieties .
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0576021202, 9780576021203 |
| Length | 423 pages |
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