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The writers of the old romances , from whom Ariofto and Spencer have borrowed fo largely , are fuppofed to have had copious . imaginations but may they not be indebted , for their invulnerable heroes , their monsters , their ...
The writers of the old romances , from whom Ariofto and Spencer have borrowed fo largely , are fuppofed to have had copious . imaginations but may they not be indebted , for their invulnerable heroes , their monsters , their ...
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Fontaine is , in truth , the capital and unrivalled writer of comic tales . He generally took his fubjects from Boccace , Poggius + , and Ariofto ; but adorned them with fo many natural strokes , with fuch quaintness in his reflections ...
Fontaine is , in truth , the capital and unrivalled writer of comic tales . He generally took his fubjects from Boccace , Poggius + , and Ariofto ; but adorned them with fo many natural strokes , with fuch quaintness in his reflections ...
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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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One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocofe old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole ...
One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocofe old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole ...
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This reminds me of that forcible defcription in a writer whose fancy was eminently ftrong . " Catilina vero , longe a fuis , inter hoftium cadavera repertus eft , paululum Palamon and Arcite , Book I. etiam etiam fpirans ; ferociamque ...
This reminds me of that forcible defcription in a writer whose fancy was eminently ftrong . " Catilina vero , longe a fuis , inter hoftium cadavera repertus eft , paululum Palamon and Arcite , Book I. etiam etiam fpirans ; ferociamque ...
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