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... obfervations : his de- scriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomfon was accuf ...
... obfervations : his de- scriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomfon was accuf ...
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... obfervations however true , do not , I think , extend to the cafe before us , because not only the thoughts , but even the words are copied ; and because the images , especially the laft , are fuch , as are not immediately impreffed by ...
... obfervations however true , do not , I think , extend to the cafe before us , because not only the thoughts , but even the words are copied ; and because the images , especially the laft , are fuch , as are not immediately impreffed by ...
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... obfervations on Homer and Virgil , after so many volumes of criticism as have been spent upon them , yet the following remarks have a novelty and penetration in them that may enter- tain ; especially , as the little treatise from which ...
... obfervations on Homer and Virgil , after so many volumes of criticism as have been spent upon them , yet the following remarks have a novelty and penetration in them that may enter- tain ; especially , as the little treatise from which ...
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