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... we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who possessed the liveliest wit with the profoundeft reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora . and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X.
... we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have * Machiavel , who possessed the liveliest wit with the profoundeft reflection , wrote also two comedies , Mandgragora . and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X.
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... his incompa rable satires with it ; Malespini also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the sixth author who delivered it , as our Prior was the last ; and perhaps not the least fpirited .
... his incompa rable satires with it ; Malespini also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the sixth author who delivered it , as our Prior was the last ; and perhaps not the least fpirited .
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“ Chaucer is a perpetual foun : tain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all fubjects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few ...
“ Chaucer is a perpetual foun : tain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all fubjects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few ...
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posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as is also the elegant Vision of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * ...
posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as is also the elegant Vision of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * ...
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There is also a decree of the inquisition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caused some alterations to be made . " LONGUERUANA , Tom . II . p . 62 . a Berlin , 1754and . rivalled 18 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
There is also a decree of the inquisition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caused some alterations to be made . " LONGUERUANA , Tom . II . p . 62 . a Berlin , 1754and . rivalled 18 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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