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... passages and precepts in this ESSAY , as , on account of their utility , novelty , or elegance , deferve particular attention ; and perhaps I may take the freedom to hint at a few imperfections , in this SENSIBLE performance . I fhall ...
... passages and precepts in this ESSAY , as , on account of their utility , novelty , or elegance , deferve particular attention ; and perhaps I may take the freedom to hint at a few imperfections , in this SENSIBLE performance . I fhall ...
Page 155
... passage of POPE . Poets that lafting marble feek , Muft carve in Latin or in Greek ; We write in fand ; our language grows , And like the tide , our work o'erflows . • Ver . 474 . + Ver . 483 . Chaucer 12 Chaucer his SENSE can only ...
... passage of POPE . Poets that lafting marble feek , Muft carve in Latin or in Greek ; We write in fand ; our language grows , And like the tide , our work o'erflows . • Ver . 474 . + Ver . 483 . Chaucer 12 Chaucer his SENSE can only ...
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