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Page 58
His praise of Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd births ...
His praise of Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd births ...
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From breaths of fools thy commendation spreads , Fame sings thy praise with mouths of loggerheads . With noise and laughing each thy fustian greets , ' Tis clapt by quires of empty - headed cits , Who have their tribute sent ...
From breaths of fools thy commendation spreads , Fame sings thy praise with mouths of loggerheads . With noise and laughing each thy fustian greets , ' Tis clapt by quires of empty - headed cits , Who have their tribute sent ...
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To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery , and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehood of his assertions , is surely to discover great ignorance of human nature and human life .
To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery , and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehood of his assertions , is surely to discover great ignorance of human nature and human life .
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