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Page 120
... not been published before the world was bleffed with the First Philofophy . " He who pretends to difcufs the Sentiments of Pythagoras , Plato , Ari- ftotle , WHEN Fontaine , whofe tales indicated a truly comic genius 120 ESSAY ON THE ...
... not been published before the world was bleffed with the First Philofophy . " He who pretends to difcufs the Sentiments of Pythagoras , Plato , Ari- ftotle , WHEN Fontaine , whofe tales indicated a truly comic genius 120 ESSAY ON THE ...
Page 209
... SENTIMENT ; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD ra- ther than the HEART : Or whether , lastly , when juft models , from which the rules have neceffarily been drawn , have once ap- peared , fucceeding writers , by vainly and ...
... SENTIMENT ; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD ra- ther than the HEART : Or whether , lastly , when juft models , from which the rules have neceffarily been drawn , have once ap- peared , fucceeding writers , by vainly and ...
Page 232
... sentiments to their fource , may perhaps be inclined to think , that the hint of ascribing tasks and offices to fuch imaginary beings , is taken from the Fairies and the Ariel of Shakespeare ; let the impartial critic deter- mine ...
... sentiments to their fource , may perhaps be inclined to think , that the hint of ascribing tasks and offices to fuch imaginary beings , is taken from the Fairies and the Ariel of Shakespeare ; let the impartial critic deter- mine ...
Page 296
... sentiments , and the most sudden and violent turns of paffion to be displayed . Ovid may , perhaps , Be blamed for a famenefs of fubjects , in these epistles of this heroines whofe diftreffes are almost all noccafioned by their lovers ...
... sentiments , and the most sudden and violent turns of paffion to be displayed . Ovid may , perhaps , Be blamed for a famenefs of fubjects , in these epistles of this heroines whofe diftreffes are almost all noccafioned by their lovers ...
Page 321
... sentiments are plainly from the letters , " Nihil unquam , deus fcit , in te , nifi te re- quifivi ; te purč non tua concupifcens . Non matrimonii fœdera , non dotes aliquas ex- pectavi . Et fi uxoris nomen fanctius ac validius videtur ...
... sentiments are plainly from the letters , " Nihil unquam , deus fcit , in te , nifi te re- quifivi ; te purč non tua concupifcens . Non matrimonii fœdera , non dotes aliquas ex- pectavi . Et fi uxoris nomen fanctius ac validius videtur ...
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