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... rails at human kind from bis G " Study ; tho what he learns , he speaks ; and may perhaps advance fome gene- ❝oral maxims , or may be right by ❝ chance . ❝ chance . The coxcomb bird , fo grave and viii DEDICATION .
... rails at human kind from bis G " Study ; tho what he learns , he speaks ; and may perhaps advance fome gene- ❝oral maxims , or may be right by ❝ chance . ❝ chance . The coxcomb bird , fo grave and viii DEDICATION .
Page x
... perhaps un- willing to fpeak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as ex- actly characterizes POPE as it does his model model Boileau , for whom it was origi nally defigned ...
... perhaps un- willing to fpeak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as ex- actly characterizes POPE as it does his model model Boileau , for whom it was origi nally defigned ...
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... perhaps may be one reason , among others , why we have never yet seen a fair and candid 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 ...
... perhaps may be one reason , among others , why we have never yet seen a fair and candid 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 ...
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... perhaps the dig- nity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and useless circumlocutions . See See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With AND ...
... perhaps the dig- nity , the energy , and the fimplicity of the original are in a few paffages weakened and diminished by florid epithets , and useless circumlocutions . See See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring , With AND ...
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... perhaps a more proper and interesting fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : terror being a stronger fen- fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of ...
... perhaps a more proper and interesting fubject for poetry than the former ; as fuch kinds of objects make the deepest impreffion on the mind : terror being a stronger fen- fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of ...
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