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Of JANUARY and May , The Wife of Bath , and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and Ovid , and the ImiTATIONS of some English Poets . TH HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables .
Of JANUARY and May , The Wife of Bath , and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and Ovid , and the ImiTATIONS of some English Poets . TH HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables .
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One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ... For this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ...
One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ... For this reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ...
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... astrology , chemistry and romance , there was not one copy of Tully to be found , and no Latin poet but Ovid , Lucan and Boethius ; some French translations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God .
... astrology , chemistry and romance , there was not one copy of Tully to be found , and no Latin poet but Ovid , Lucan and Boethius ; some French translations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God .
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... tantaque libidine vulgi Auditur : sed , cum fregit fubfellia verfu , Efurit . an In these verses are many expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hirit obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar ...
... tantaque libidine vulgi Auditur : sed , cum fregit fubfellia verfu , Efurit . an In these verses are many expressions , here marked with italics , which seem to hirit obliquely , that Statius was the favourite poet of the vulgar ...
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Or why the Greeks , fo fruitful in every species of poetry , yet never produced but one great epic poet ? While on the 1 1 the other hand , modern Italy , can fhew two 24 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Or why the Greeks , fo fruitful in every species of poetry , yet never produced but one great epic poet ? While on the 1 1 the other hand , modern Italy , can fhew two 24 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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