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... letters , at a time , when books were fo rare and uncom- mon , that a countefs of Anjou gave for a collection of homilies , two hundred sheep , a measure of wheat , another of rye , a third of millet , and a certain number of the skins ...
... letters , at a time , when books were fo rare and uncom- mon , that a countefs of Anjou gave for a collection of homilies , two hundred sheep , a measure of wheat , another of rye , a third of millet , and a certain number of the skins ...
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... letters , advised him to burn it ; though he adds , " I would have interceded for the first page , and put it , with your leave , among my curiofities . " I have been credi- bly informed , that fome of the anonymous verfes , quoted as ...
... letters , advised him to burn it ; though he adds , " I would have interceded for the first page , and put it , with your leave , among my curiofities . " I have been credi- bly informed , that fome of the anonymous verfes , quoted as ...
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... and our poet in a letter to him on that occafion , fays- " You have it , as Cowley calls it , juft warm from the brain ; it came to me the first moment I waked waked this morning ; yet you'll fee , it was 86 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... and our poet in a letter to him on that occafion , fays- " You have it , as Cowley calls it , juft warm from the brain ; it came to me the first moment I waked waked this morning ; yet you'll fee , it was 86 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 102
... eloquentiæ genus , " for which he will be diftinguished , will not be the " plenum et erectum , et audax , et præcelfum , " but the " preffum , et mite , et et limatum * . " In the earliest letters of 102 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... eloquentiæ genus , " for which he will be diftinguished , will not be the " plenum et erectum , et audax , et præcelfum , " but the " preffum , et mite , et et limatum * . " In the earliest letters of 102 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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Joseph Warton. et limatum * . " In the earliest letters of POPE to Wycherley , to Walsh , and Cromwell , we find many admirable and acute judgments of men and books , and an intimate acquaintance not only with fome of the ... letters of ...
Joseph Warton. et limatum * . " In the earliest letters of POPE to Wycherley , to Walsh , and Cromwell , we find many admirable and acute judgments of men and books , and an intimate acquaintance not only with fome of the ... letters of ...
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