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Page vii
... once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic and fatiric pieces . -Neque enim coNCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS- are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ...
... once disclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic and fatiric pieces . -Neque enim coNCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS- are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ...
Page 10
... Dryden . * I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate friend of POPE , that he had once laid a defign . of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... Dryden . * I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate friend of POPE , that he had once laid a defign . of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 28
... once more a race of kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold * . The two epithets native and fable have pecu- liar elegance and force ; and as Peru was particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for ...
... once more a race of kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold * . The two epithets native and fable have pecu- liar elegance and force ; and as Peru was particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for ...
Page 111
... once , and fee whether every part cohered , and co - ope- rated to produce the intended event : when his matter was thus regularly disposed , he was used to say , My Tragedy is finished . " " " I Now propose to make some observations on ...
... once , and fee whether every part cohered , and co - ope- rated to produce the intended event : when his matter was thus regularly disposed , he was used to say , My Tragedy is finished . " " " I Now propose to make some observations on ...
Page 118
... once enjoyed , in full vigour , a fublime and fplendid imagination , a folid and profound understanding , an exact and tenacious memory , are Herodotus , Plato , Tully , Livy , Tacitus , Galilæo , Bacon , Des Cartes , Malebranche ...
... once enjoyed , in full vigour , a fublime and fplendid imagination , a folid and profound understanding , an exact and tenacious memory , are Herodotus , Plato , Tully , Livy , Tacitus , Galilæo , Bacon , Des Cartes , Malebranche ...
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