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Page vii
... once difclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic and fatiric pieces . -NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS―― are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ...
... once difclaimed all right and title to the name of POET , on the score of his ethic and fatiric pieces . -NEQUE ENIM CONCLUDERE VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS―― are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ...
Page 10
... of Dryden . I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate friend of POPE , that he had once laid a defign of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS .
... of Dryden . I REMEMBER to have been informed , by an intimate friend of POPE , that he had once laid a defign of writing AMERICAN ECLOGUES : } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS .
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... once more a race of kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold * . The two epithets native and fable have pecu- liar elegance and force ; and as Peru was particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for ...
... once more a race of kings behold , And other Mexicos be roof'd with gold * . The two epithets native and fable have pecu- liar elegance and force ; and as Peru was particularly famous for its long fucceffion of Incas , and Mexico for ...
Page 111
... once , and see whether every part cohered , and co - ope- rated to produce the intended event : when his matter was thus regularly difpofed , he` was used to fay , " My Tragedy is finished . " I Now propose to make fome observations on ...
... once , and see whether every part cohered , and co - ope- rated to produce the intended event : when his matter was thus regularly difpofed , he` was used to fay , " My Tragedy is finished . " I Now propose to make fome observations on ...
Page 118
... once enjoyed , in full vigour , a sublime and splendid imagination , a folid and profound understanding , an exact and tenacious memory , are Herodotus , Plato , Tully , Livy , Tacitus , Galilæo , Bacon , Des Cartes , Malebranche ...
... once enjoyed , in full vigour , a sublime and splendid imagination , a folid and profound understanding , an exact and tenacious memory , are Herodotus , Plato , Tully , Livy , Tacitus , Galilæo , Bacon , Des Cartes , Malebranche ...
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