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Page 32
... common authors may justly think not only above their attain- ment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attain- ment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
Page 100
... common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his file at all ...
... common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his file at all ...
Page 157
... common places of artificial courtship . They are commonly smooth and easy ; but have little nature , and little sentiment . His imitation of Horace on Lucilius is not in- elegant or unhappy . In the reign of Charles the Second began ...
... common places of artificial courtship . They are commonly smooth and easy ; but have little nature , and little sentiment . His imitation of Horace on Lucilius is not in- elegant or unhappy . In the reign of Charles the Second began ...
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