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... words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his fubject and his manner ) VETUSTIS DARE NOVITATEM , OBSOLETIS FASTIDITIS GRA- NITOREM , OBSCURIS LUCEM , TIAM . I am St. James's , Dec. 22d , 1728 . Your most humble ...
... words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his fubject and his manner ) VETUSTIS DARE NOVITATEM , OBSOLETIS FASTIDITIS GRA- NITOREM , OBSCURIS LUCEM , TIAM . I am St. James's , Dec. 22d , 1728 . Your most humble ...
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... words : Mr. ADDISON , FREEHOLDER , No . 40 . " When I confider myself as a British freeholder , I " am in a particular manner pleased with the labours " of those who have improved our language with the " tranflations of old Greek and ...
... words : Mr. ADDISON , FREEHOLDER , No . 40 . " When I confider myself as a British freeholder , I " am in a particular manner pleased with the labours " of those who have improved our language with the " tranflations of old Greek and ...
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... words of Mr. POPE'S PROPOSAL for the ODYSSEY , ( printed by J. Watts , Jan. 10 , 1724. ) " I take this occafion to declare that the fubfcription " for Shakespeare belongs wholly to Mr. Tonfon : And " " that ❝ that the benefit of this ...
... words of Mr. POPE'S PROPOSAL for the ODYSSEY , ( printed by J. Watts , Jan. 10 , 1724. ) " I take this occafion to declare that the fubfcription " for Shakespeare belongs wholly to Mr. Tonfon : And " " that ❝ that the benefit of this ...
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... words : " The author is allowed to be a perfect master of an " eafy and elegant verfification . In all his works we " find the most happy turns , and natural similies , won- " derfully short and thick fown . " The Effay on the Dunciad ...
... words : " The author is allowed to be a perfect master of an " eafy and elegant verfification . In all his works we " find the most happy turns , and natural similies , won- " derfully short and thick fown . " The Effay on the Dunciad ...
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... word of " a gentleman , that I never wrote fo much as one line in concert with any one man whatsoever . And these two Letters from Gildon will plainly fhew , that we are " not writers in concert with each other . Sir , -The height of my ...
... word of " a gentleman , that I never wrote fo much as one line in concert with any one man whatsoever . And these two Letters from Gildon will plainly fhew , that we are " not writers in concert with each other . Sir , -The height of my ...
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