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... writer of comic tales . He generally took his fubjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariofto ; but adorned them with so many natural strokes , with fuch quaintness in his reflections , and fuch a drynefs and archness of humour , as ...
... writer of comic tales . He generally took his fubjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariofto ; but adorned them with so many natural strokes , with fuch quaintness in his reflections , and fuch a drynefs and archness of humour , as ...
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... writer * , and was too often turgid and hyperbolical . 15. See how the worid its veterans rewards , A youth of ... writers , and the naufeousness of bombaft . I remember he said , that fuch torrents of eloquence were muddy as well as ...
... writer * , and was too often turgid and hyperbolical . 15. See how the worid its veterans rewards , A youth of ... writers , and the naufeousness of bombaft . I remember he said , that fuch torrents of eloquence were muddy as well as ...
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... writer into it . But the pureft authors have de- spised it , as an ornament pert , and puerile , and epigrammatic ... writers fall into this mode of speaking but seldom , and do not make it their conftant and general Thofe moderns who ...
... writer into it . But the pureft authors have de- spised it , as an ornament pert , and puerile , and epigrammatic ... writers fall into this mode of speaking but seldom , and do not make it their conftant and general Thofe moderns who ...
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