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... better man in England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the mot amiable of mankind ; and this pofthumous praise may fafely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials ...
... better man in England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the mot amiable of mankind ; and this pofthumous praise may fafely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials ...
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... better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the father of criticism has rightly deno- minated poetry Texon μμnn , an imitative art , thefe writers ...
... better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the father of criticism has rightly deno- minated poetry Texon μμnn , an imitative art , thefe writers ...
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... better taste ; If it take air before its spirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife that stays at home , with a pair of compaffes , it may be doubted whe- whether abfurdity or ingenuity has the bet ...
... better taste ; If it take air before its spirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife that stays at home , with a pair of compaffes , it may be doubted whe- whether abfurdity or ingenuity has the bet ...
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... better way , but has not purfued it with great fuccefs . His verfions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imita- tion of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of profe , nor the ...
... better way , but has not purfued it with great fuccefs . His verfions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imita- tion of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of profe , nor the ...
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... better practice , as he gains more confidence . in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be ftill found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse ...
... better practice , as he gains more confidence . in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be ftill found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse ...
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