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... " and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which fo few can properly judge . A 3 FOR FOR One perfon who can adequate . ly relish , DEDICATION .
... " and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo few poffefs , and of which fo few can properly judge . A 3 FOR FOR One perfon who can adequate . ly relish , DEDICATION .
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Joseph Warton. FOR One perfon who can adequate . ly relish , and enjoy a work of imagi- nation , twenty are to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are ...
Joseph Warton. FOR One perfon who can adequate . ly relish , and enjoy a work of imagi- nation , twenty are to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are ...
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... perfon , confer as much honour on M. Defpreaux , as the verses which are purely his own . The original turn which he gives to his trans- lations , the boldness of his expreffions , fo little forced and unnatural , that they seem to be ...
... perfon , confer as much honour on M. Defpreaux , as the verses which are purely his own . The original turn which he gives to his trans- lations , the boldness of his expreffions , fo little forced and unnatural , that they seem to be ...
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... perfon . There have yet existed but a few transcendent geniuses , who have been fingularly bleft with this rare assemblage of different talents . All that I can at present recollect who have at once enjoyed , in full vigour , a sublime ...
... perfon . There have yet existed but a few transcendent geniuses , who have been fingularly bleft with this rare assemblage of different talents . All that I can at present recollect who have at once enjoyed , in full vigour , a sublime ...
Page 147
... equally applicable to any other perfon or place . • Ver . 289 . † Aegews de agern , ca ‡ ñ nai un tats . Ariftot . Poet . c . zz . Idyll . Kunλ . Lz Candi- Candidior nivei - folio , Galatea , ligustri ; Floridior AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 147.
... equally applicable to any other perfon or place . • Ver . 289 . † Aegews de agern , ca ‡ ñ nai un tats . Ariftot . Poet . c . zz . Idyll . Kunλ . Lz Candi- Candidior nivei - folio , Galatea , ligustri ; Floridior AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 147.
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