Collected Works, Volume 1Clarendon P., 1966 - English literature |
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Page 137
... Natural History , as some teach it , is boundless ; and such as have undertaken the task of describing minutely every object in the great Museum of Nature , have , after 5 a long life , at last found themselves scarce advanced beyond ...
... Natural History , as some teach it , is boundless ; and such as have undertaken the task of describing minutely every object in the great Museum of Nature , have , after 5 a long life , at last found themselves scarce advanced beyond ...
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... nature , and force themselves into sensibility by rule . Were Dacier or Bossu to prescribe to the poetical world , every heroic poem would be cast in the same mould : 1 as Homer contains all excellence , every deviation from his example ...
... nature , and force themselves into sensibility by rule . Were Dacier or Bossu to prescribe to the poetical world , every heroic poem would be cast in the same mould : 1 as Homer contains all excellence , every deviation from his example ...
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... nature , as it could not with success . For mere 5 critics to be guilty of such scholastic rage , is not uncommon , but for men of the first rank of fame to be delinquent also , is , I own , sur- prizing . THE reflecting reader need ...
... nature , as it could not with success . For mere 5 critics to be guilty of such scholastic rage , is not uncommon , but for men of the first rank of fame to be delinquent also , is , I own , sur- prizing . THE reflecting reader need ...
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REVIEWS | 5 |
The History of Two Persons of Quality | 16 |
A Treatise upon Dropsies | 23 |
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