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To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few ...
To produce , and carry on with probability and decorum , a series of events , is the most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the popular ftories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few ...
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Κάκοι δέ ογκοι , και επισωμάτων και λόγων , οι χαυνοι και αναληθείς , και μηποτε περεις αυτές ήμας εις συναντιον δὲν γὰρ φασι , ξηρότερον υδρωπικς . Longinus , Tepas tu . y . Sect . iii . They should read ...
Κάκοι δέ ογκοι , και επισωμάτων και λόγων , οι χαυνοι και αναληθείς , και μηποτε περεις αυτές ήμας εις συναντιον δὲν γὰρ φασι , ξηρότερον υδρωπικς . Longinus , Tepas tu . y . Sect . iii . They should read ...
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If I was to name my favourite among Waller's smaller pieces , it should be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been used to the surprising juice of the grape , render up their reafon to ...
If I was to name my favourite among Waller's smaller pieces , it should be his apology for having loved before . He begins by saying that " they who never had been used to the surprising juice of the grape , render up their reafon to ...
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... That it is not ftrange , that we should not be able to discover perfection and order in every inftance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully .
... That it is not ftrange , that we should not be able to discover perfection and order in every inftance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully .
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... how would a perpetual noise distract us ; and we * Locke's Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 256 . ↑ Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 255 . F 4 should fhould in the quieteft retirement , be less ...
... how would a perpetual noise distract us ; and we * Locke's Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 256 . ↑ Ver . 201 . Effay on Human Understanding , vol . I. pag . 255 . F 4 should fhould in the quieteft retirement , be less ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2010 |
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