The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... natural to fuppofe the approbation general and the fale numerous . I once heard it obferved , that the fale may be calculated by the product of the tax , related in the last number to produce more than twenty pounds a week , and ...
... natural to fuppofe the approbation general and the fale numerous . I once heard it obferved , that the fale may be calculated by the product of the tax , related in the last number to produce more than twenty pounds a week , and ...
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... nature , heightened with humour other " more exquifite and delightful than << any man ever poffeffed . " This is the fondness of a friend ; let us hear what is told us by a rival , " Addifon's converfation * , " fays Pope , " had ...
... nature , heightened with humour other " more exquifite and delightful than << any man ever poffeffed . " This is the fondness of a friend ; let us hear what is told us by a rival , " Addifon's converfation * , " fays Pope , " had ...
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... nature of his criticifin . Be- fore a cenfure fo fevere is admitted , let us confider that War is a frequent subject of Poetry , and then enquire who has described it with more justnefs and force . Many of our own writers tried their ...
... nature of his criticifin . Be- fore a cenfure fo fevere is admitted , let us confider that War is a frequent subject of Poetry , and then enquire who has described it with more justnefs and force . Many of our own writers tried their ...
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... nature diffimilar , or of caufes terminating by different operations in fome re- femblance of effect . But the mention of ano- ther like confequence from a like cause , or of a like performance by a like agency , is not a fimile , but ...
... nature diffimilar , or of caufes terminating by different operations in fome re- femblance of effect . But the mention of ano- ther like confequence from a like cause , or of a like performance by a like agency , is not a fimile , but ...
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... natural affections , or of any state probable or poffible in human life . Nothing here excites or affwages emotion ; here is no magical power of raifing phantaftick terror or wild anxiety . The events are expect- ed without folicitude ...
... natural affections , or of any state probable or poffible in human life . Nothing here excites or affwages emotion ; here is no magical power of raifing phantaftick terror or wild anxiety . The events are expect- ed without folicitude ...
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