An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... first dawnings of polite lite- TH rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them ...
... first dawnings of polite lite- TH rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He collected many of the common tales of his country , and delivered them ...
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... first fight appear para- doxical ; but if the fubject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildeft chimeras in those books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a ...
... first fight appear para- doxical ; but if the fubject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildeft chimeras in those books of chivalry with which Don Quixote's library was furnished , would be found to have a ...
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... first due to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetia , where it is entitled Vifio Francifci Philel- phi ; from hence Rabelais inferted it , under another title , in his third book and twenty- eighth ...
... first due to Poggius . It is found in the hundred and thirty - third of his Facetia , where it is entitled Vifio Francifci Philel- phi ; from hence Rabelais inferted it , under another title , in his third book and twenty- eighth ...
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... first sketch of a master , conspire to corro- borate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo ...
... first sketch of a master , conspire to corro- borate the truth of the fact . THE TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo ...
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... first volume , to which the following anec- dote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . .. I wrote things , faid POPE , I am ashamed to • Pag . 78 . Jay fay how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- AND ...
... first volume , to which the following anec- dote must be added , which I lately received from one of his intimate friends . .. I wrote things , faid POPE , I am ashamed to • Pag . 78 . Jay fay how foon ; part of my epic poem AL- AND ...
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