An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is an imitation of the Caffina of Plautus ; " Indigna vero homine Chriftiano ( fays Balzac ) qui fan & tiores ...
... also two comedies , Mandgragora and Clytia , the former of which was played before Leo X. with much magnificence ; the latter is an imitation of the Caffina of Plautus ; " Indigna vero homine Chriftiano ( fays Balzac ) qui fan & tiores ...
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... also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the leaft fpirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the ...
... also made use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the leaft fpirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the ...
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... also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never ...
... also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never ...
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... also a decree of the inquifition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caufed some af- terations to be made . " LONGUERUANA , Tom . II . P. 62 . a Berlin , 1754 . and and I place them last , as I think them 18 ESSAY ON ...
... also a decree of the inquifition in favour of this edition , in which the holy father caufed some af- terations to be made . " LONGUERUANA , Tom . II . P. 62 . a Berlin , 1754 . and and I place them last , as I think them 18 ESSAY ON ...
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... also another writer of a bad tafte , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the sto- ries of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to ...
... also another writer of a bad tafte , on whom POPE employed fome of his youthful hours ; in tranflating the sto- ries of Dryope and Pomona . Were it not for the useful mythological knowledge they contain , the works of Ovid ought not to ...
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