An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... fome ENGLISH POETS . T HE first dawnings of polite lite- rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He collected many of the common tales of his ...
... fome ENGLISH POETS . T HE first dawnings of polite lite- rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He collected many of the common tales of his ...
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... fome pieces of ascetic devotion , composed by him , are preserved in the libraries of Italy . Lord Bacon fays remarkably of Machiavel , that he teaches what men ufually do , not what they ought to do . I been been ever invented . Facts ...
... fome pieces of ascetic devotion , composed by him , are preserved in the libraries of Italy . Lord Bacon fays remarkably of Machiavel , that he teaches what men ufually do , not what they ought to do . I been been ever invented . Facts ...
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... fome French tranflations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God . He placed these in one of the towers of the old Louvre , which was called the tower of the library . This was the foundation of the prefent magnificent ...
... fome French tranflations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God . He placed these in one of the towers of the old Louvre , which was called the tower of the library . This was the foundation of the prefent magnificent ...
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... fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage , tern tern of POPE , unconnected with the main ...
... fome pieces after Dryden used to say , more . Experto credite , quantus In clypeum affurgat , quo turbine torqueat haftam . Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage , tern tern of POPE , unconnected with the main ...
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... fome ftrange and fupernatural danger , can scarcely be reprefented more feelingly . All nature is thus faid to fympathize at the fecond appearance of The felon on his fable fteed Arm'd with his naked fword that urg'd his dogs to speed ...
... fome ftrange and fupernatural danger , can scarcely be reprefented more feelingly . All nature is thus faid to fympathize at the fecond appearance of The felon on his fable fteed Arm'd with his naked fword that urg'd his dogs to speed ...
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