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... " and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which so few can properly judge . A 3 FOR FOR One person who can adequate- ly relish , and DEDICATION .
... " and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which so few can properly judge . A 3 FOR FOR One person who can adequate- ly relish , and DEDICATION .
Page vi
Joseph Warton. FOR One person who can adequate- ly relish , and enjoy a work of imagi- nation , twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are ...
Joseph Warton. FOR One person who can adequate- ly relish , and enjoy a work of imagi- nation , twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are ...
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... PERSON of no fmall tank has informed me , that Mr. Addison was inexpreffibly cha- grined at this noble conclufion of WINDSOR- FOREST , both as a politician and as a poet . As a politician , because it fo highly celebrated that treaty of ...
... PERSON of no fmall tank has informed me , that Mr. Addison was inexpreffibly cha- grined at this noble conclufion of WINDSOR- FOREST , both as a politician and as a poet . As a politician , because it fo highly celebrated that treaty of ...
Page 49
... made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not prefume to fay it is equal , either in E dignity dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 49.
... made up of fauces : and I know many other persons that think meanly of it . I will not prefume to fay it is equal , either in E dignity dignity or utility , to thofe compofitions that lay open AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 49.
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... person of taste who was refolved to have it executed , if an artist could have been found , on one fide of his falloon . In which cafe , faid he , the painter has nothing to do , but to fub- ftitute colours for words , the defign being ...
... person of taste who was refolved to have it executed , if an artist could have been found , on one fide of his falloon . In which cafe , faid he , the painter has nothing to do , but to fub- ftitute colours for words , the defign being ...
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