An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is an imitation of the Cassina of Plautus ; " Indigna vero homine Christiano ( says Balzac ) qui sanctiores ...
... also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is an imitation of the Cassina of Plautus ; " Indigna vero homine Christiano ( says Balzac ) qui sanctiores ...
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... also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the last ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the ...
... also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the last ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the ...
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... also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never ...
... also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never ...
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... also the elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmo- nious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them ...
... also the elegant VISION of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmo- nious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them ...
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... also a decree of the inquisition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caused some al- terations to be made . " LONGUERUANA , Tom . II . p . 62 . a Berlin , 1754- and and I place them last , as I think them 18 ESSAY ON ...
... also a decree of the inquisition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caused some al- terations to be made . " LONGUERUANA , Tom . II . p . 62 . a Berlin , 1754- and and I place them last , as I think them 18 ESSAY ON ...
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