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... original design . There is this want in most descriptive poems , because as the scenes , which they must exhibit successively , are all subsisting at the same time , the order in which they are shown must by necessity be arbitrary , and ...
... original design . There is this want in most descriptive poems , because as the scenes , which they must exhibit successively , are all subsisting at the same time , the order in which they are shown must by necessity be arbitrary , and ...
Page 228
... original , which will likewise often detect strained applications . Between Roman images and English manners there will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude , and the works will be generally uncouth and party - coloured ; neither original ...
... original , which will likewise often detect strained applications . Between Roman images and English manners there will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude , and the works will be generally uncouth and party - coloured ; neither original ...
Page 231
... original , as they are decried for the badness of their translations . Chapman pretends to have restored the genuine sense of the author , from the mistakes of all former explainers , in several hundred places ; and the Cambridge ...
... original , as they are decried for the badness of their translations . Chapman pretends to have restored the genuine sense of the author , from the mistakes of all former explainers , in several hundred places ; and the Cambridge ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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