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His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftness of the criticism , but because it ...
His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself fays he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftness of the criticism , but because it ...
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Chaucer is a perpetual fountain of good fenfe ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore fpeaks properly on all subjects : As he knew what to fay , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers ...
Chaucer is a perpetual fountain of good fenfe ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore fpeaks properly on all subjects : As he knew what to fay , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers ...
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The French , as may be imagined , complain that he is too learned for the ladies . The following twelve lines contain three allufions , delicate indeed , but fome may deem them to be too far - fetched , too much crouded , and not ...
The French , as may be imagined , complain that he is too learned for the ladies . The following twelve lines contain three allufions , delicate indeed , but fome may deem them to be too far - fetched , too much crouded , and not ...
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There he will find the genuine doctrines of the Stoics examined with accuracy and fagacity , in a learned deduction of paffages , from all the best writers of that school ; the fum of which quotations , in the nervous language of that ...
There he will find the genuine doctrines of the Stoics examined with accuracy and fagacity , in a learned deduction of paffages , from all the best writers of that school ; the fum of which quotations , in the nervous language of that ...
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These are the words of Dr. Law , in his learned Commentary on King's Origin of Evil , first published in Latin , 1701 , a work of penetration and close reasoning ; which , it is remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome extracts ...
These are the words of Dr. Law , in his learned Commentary on King's Origin of Evil , first published in Latin , 1701 , a work of penetration and close reasoning ; which , it is remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome extracts ...
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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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