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Boileau did not look upon Fontaine as an original writer , and afed to fay he had borrowed both his ftile and matter from Marot and Rabelais . " Poggius Florentinus in hoc numero eloquentium virorum fingulare nomen obtinet .
Boileau did not look upon Fontaine as an original writer , and afed to fay he had borrowed both his ftile and matter from Marot and Rabelais . " Poggius Florentinus in hoc numero eloquentium virorum fingulare nomen obtinet .
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thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on Man from the fourth of Boileau , and the tenth Satire of Horace , are the only pieces of this profligate nobleman , which modefty or common fense will allow any man to read .
thing ; which piece , together with his Satire on Man from the fourth of Boileau , and the tenth Satire of Horace , are the only pieces of this profligate nobleman , which modefty or common fense will allow any man to read .
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... and debase the dignity of human nature , and thereby deftroy the most efficacious incitements to lovely and laudable actions but that a writer of Boileau's purity of manners , fhould reprefent his kind in the dark and disagreeable ...
... and debase the dignity of human nature , and thereby deftroy the most efficacious incitements to lovely and laudable actions but that a writer of Boileau's purity of manners , fhould reprefent his kind in the dark and disagreeable ...
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We We may mention the Syphilis of Fracaftorius , the Silk - worms and Chefs of Vida , the Ambra of Politian , the Agriculture of Alamanni , the Art of Poetry of Boileau , the Gardens of Rapin , the Cyder of Phillips , the Chafe of ...
We We may mention the Syphilis of Fracaftorius , the Silk - worms and Chefs of Vida , the Ambra of Politian , the Agriculture of Alamanni , the Art of Poetry of Boileau , the Gardens of Rapin , the Cyder of Phillips , the Chafe of ...
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To these we owe true friendship , love fincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here § . IT * See alfo to this purpose a fenfible paffage in Hutchefon's Conduct of the Paffions , pag . 183 . + Ver . 185 . Boileau , Epiftre vii ...
To these we owe true friendship , love fincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here § . IT * See alfo to this purpose a fenfible paffage in Hutchefon's Conduct of the Paffions , pag . 183 . + Ver . 185 . Boileau , Epiftre vii ...
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