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... criticism , that will naturally arise in the course of fuch an enquiry . No love of fingula- rity , no affectation of paradoxical opi- nions , gave rife to the following work . A 2 I revere I revere the memory of Pore , Prefpect and honour.
... criticism , that will naturally arise in the course of fuch an enquiry . No love of fingula- rity , no affectation of paradoxical opi- nions , gave rife to the following work . A 2 I revere I revere the memory of Pore , Prefpect and honour.
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... criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant ...
... criticism on the character and merits of our laft great poet , Mr. POPE . I have therefore thought , that it would be no unpleafing amusement , or uninstructive employment to examine at large , without blind panegyric , or petulant ...
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... critics have agreed to extir- pate and explode . But I do not remember , that even these , or any critics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opi- nion , that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and ...
... critics have agreed to extir- pate and explode . But I do not remember , that even these , or any critics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opi- nion , that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and ...
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... fin- gular beauties of this prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 THE 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS " ...
... fin- gular beauties of this prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 THE 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS " ...
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... critic might have discovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which afterwards was to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fuffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the descriptive kind ; but ...
... critic might have discovered the feeds of that boundless imagination , which afterwards was to produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fuffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the descriptive kind ; but ...
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