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... preserved to the last , was with justice convinced , that the Scriptures of God con- tained not only the pureft precepts of mo- rality , but the most elevated and sublime strokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much superior to any ...
... preserved to the last , was with justice convinced , that the Scriptures of God con- tained not only the pureft precepts of mo- rality , but the most elevated and sublime strokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much superior to any ...
Page 85
... of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well preserved . Whe- ther these early productions of POPE , * Lib . ii . Inftit . Cap . 4. ad init . G 3 would would not have appeared to Quintilian to be rather too AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 85.
... of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well preserved . Whe- ther these early productions of POPE , * Lib . ii . Inftit . Cap . 4. ad init . G 3 would would not have appeared to Quintilian to be rather too AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 85.
Page 304
... preserved in the treatises of Dionyfius , and of Lon- ginus . I cannot help adopting the applica- tion Addison has made of two lines of Phædrus , to these remains of our poetess ; which is perhaps one of the most elegant , and happy ...
... preserved in the treatises of Dionyfius , and of Lon- ginus . I cannot help adopting the applica- tion Addison has made of two lines of Phædrus , to these remains of our poetess ; which is perhaps one of the most elegant , and happy ...
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