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Some faint traditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages , as they are called ; and it is not impoffible , but these have been the parents of the Genii in the eastern , and the B 2 ...
Some faint traditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages , as they are called ; and it is not impoffible , but these have been the parents of the Genii in the eastern , and the B 2 ...
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There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ; whole pyramids of fweet - meats for boys and women ; but little of folid meat , for men . All this proceeded not from any want of knowledge , but of judgment ; neither did he ...
There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ; whole pyramids of fweet - meats for boys and women ; but little of folid meat , for men . All this proceeded not from any want of knowledge , but of judgment ; neither did he ...
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The jocofe old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole : and of Saint Jerome part ; Chryfippus , and Tertullian , Ovid's art , Solomon's proverbs , Eloifa's loves ; With many ...
The jocofe old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole : and of Saint Jerome part ; Chryfippus , and Tertullian , Ovid's art , Solomon's proverbs , Eloifa's loves ; With many ...
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But above all , the whole defcription of the entering the lifts * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
But above all , the whole defcription of the entering the lifts * , and of the ensuing * The reader is defired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
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On their return home they mistook their way , and were obliged to pass the whole night expofed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a fevere cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . THE Verfes on Silence are a ...
On their return home they mistook their way , and were obliged to pass the whole night expofed under a hedge , where Cowley caught a fevere cold , attended with a fever , that terminated in his death . THE Verfes on Silence are a ...
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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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