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... such an acute fight would not ferve to conduct him to the market and exchange , if he could not see things he was to avoid at a convenient distance , nor distinguish things he had to do with by those sensible qualities others do * .
... such an acute fight would not ferve to conduct him to the market and exchange , if he could not see things he was to avoid at a convenient distance , nor distinguish things he had to do with by those sensible qualities others do * .
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“ But Horace ( says a penetrating observer on human life ) was grossly mistaken : the thing for which he thought he stood in ... If it be said , that riches and honours depend on a thousand things which we cannot dispose of at pleasure ...
“ But Horace ( says a penetrating observer on human life ) was grossly mistaken : the thing for which he thought he stood in ... If it be said , that riches and honours depend on a thousand things which we cannot dispose of at pleasure ...
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affected so much in blank verse , would not have been supported even in Milton , had not his subject turned so much on such Arange and out of the world things as it does * . ” - May we not , however , venture to observe , that more of ...
affected so much in blank verse , would not have been supported even in Milton , had not his subject turned so much on such Arange and out of the world things as it does * . ” - May we not , however , venture to observe , that more of ...
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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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