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... re- ceived , and philofophers themfelves difdain- ed not to be of the number ; there could not fail to arife critics of an inferior order , who who would subdivide the several provinces of this empire * 130 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... re- ceived , and philofophers themfelves difdain- ed not to be of the number ; there could not fail to arife critics of an inferior order , who who would subdivide the several provinces of this empire * 130 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 206
... several great poets , we as yet could boast of none that were perfectly CORRECT ; and that therefore , he advifed him to make this quality his particular study . CORRECTNESS is a vague term , fre- quently ufed without meaning and pre ...
... several great poets , we as yet could boast of none that were perfectly CORRECT ; and that therefore , he advifed him to make this quality his particular study . CORRECTNESS is a vague term , fre- quently ufed without meaning and pre ...
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... several of which were done by fome " of the mob of gen- tlemen that wrote with cafe ; " that is , Sir C. Scroop , Caryl , Pooly , Wright , Tate , Buckingham , Cooper , and other careless thymers . A good tranflation of these epiftles ...
... several of which were done by fome " of the mob of gen- tlemen that wrote with cafe ; " that is , Sir C. Scroop , Caryl , Pooly , Wright , Tate , Buckingham , Cooper , and other careless thymers . A good tranflation of these epiftles ...
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