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Page 211
... kind of fatire , which is conveyed in the form of the epopee , a pleating venicle of fatire , feldom , if ever , ufed by the an- tients ; for we know fo little of the Mar- gites of Homer , that it cannot well be pro- duced as an example ...
... kind of fatire , which is conveyed in the form of the epopee , a pleating venicle of fatire , feldom , if ever , ufed by the an- tients ; for we know fo little of the Mar- gites of Homer , that it cannot well be pro- duced as an example ...
Page 217
... kind of burlesque , which I have introduced into our language ; for as in the other kind of burlesque , that of Scarron , Dido and Æneas spoke like fish- women and porters , in this of mine , a * clock - maker and his wife talk like ...
... kind of burlesque , which I have introduced into our language ; for as in the other kind of burlesque , that of Scarron , Dido and Æneas spoke like fish- women and porters , in this of mine , a * clock - maker and his wife talk like ...
Page 395
... kind of fullen fatisfaction , into the flood below . This catastrophe muft furely be allowed to be well adapted to the fubject , the perfon , and the fcene ; in a word , to all the horrors with which the poem abounds . And is therefore ...
... kind of fullen fatisfaction , into the flood below . This catastrophe muft furely be allowed to be well adapted to the fubject , the perfon , and the fcene ; in a word , to all the horrors with which the poem abounds . And is therefore ...
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