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Page 98
... English poefy , and the English language is everlastingly indebted . But we may say of his imitations , what his poetical father Dryden faid of another , who deserved not fuch a panegyric fo juftly as our author : " HE INVADES AUTHORS ...
... English poefy , and the English language is everlastingly indebted . But we may say of his imitations , what his poetical father Dryden faid of another , who deserved not fuch a panegyric fo juftly as our author : " HE INVADES AUTHORS ...
Page 355
... English bard . Froiffart the va- luable hiftorian , about the fame time wrote Zurita , the Spanish hittorian , relates , that John the First , king of Arragon , invited the Troubadours to fettle in Barcelona in the fourteenth century ...
... English bard . Froiffart the va- luable hiftorian , about the fame time wrote Zurita , the Spanish hittorian , relates , that John the First , king of Arragon , invited the Troubadours to fettle in Barcelona in the fourteenth century ...
Page 380
... English tragedies AGAINST the Greek and Latin , as well as again ! the French , Italian , and Spanish of these latter ages . In- deed there is a vaft difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer ...
... English tragedies AGAINST the Greek and Latin , as well as again ! the French , Italian , and Spanish of these latter ages . In- deed there is a vaft difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer ...
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