Collected Works, Volume 1Clarendon P., 1966 - English literature |
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... excellence , but 15 of the exploded trash it succeeds . Add to this , that the least qualified to judge , are ever foremost to obtrude their opinions ; ignorance exclaims with excess of admiration ; party roars in its support ; and thus ...
... excellence , but 15 of the exploded trash it succeeds . Add to this , that the least qualified to judge , are ever foremost to obtrude their opinions ; ignorance exclaims with excess of admiration ; party roars in its support ; and thus ...
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... excellence , every deviation from his example would be an excur- sion from nature . Every heroic poem must call in the assistance of 10 machinery , because Homer has introduced gods and goddesses : the epic must have battles and ...
... excellence , every deviation from his example would be an excur- sion from nature . Every heroic poem must call in the assistance of 10 machinery , because Homer has introduced gods and goddesses : the epic must have battles and ...
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... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that profes- 20 sion were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another ...
... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that profes- 20 sion were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another ...
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REVIEWS | 5 |
The History of Two Persons of Quality | 16 |
A Treatise upon Dropsies | 23 |
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