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Page xii
... should be ranked , fuch as pof- feffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , AD- DISON , COWLEY , WALLER ...
... should be ranked , fuch as pof- feffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , AD- DISON , COWLEY , WALLER ...
Page 98
... should diminish the reputation of Boileau , by printing , in the manner of a commentary at the bottom of each page of his works , the many lines he has borrowed from Ho- ። On Dram . Poefy , p . 61 . race race and Juvenal , were grofsly ...
... should diminish the reputation of Boileau , by printing , in the manner of a commentary at the bottom of each page of his works , the many lines he has borrowed from Ho- ። On Dram . Poefy , p . 61 . race race and Juvenal , were grofsly ...
Page 127
... should end fortunately ; that in the first book there fhould be no fimile ; that the exordium fhould be very fimple and unadorned that in a tragedy , only three perfonages thould appear at once upon the stage ; and that every tragedy should ...
... should end fortunately ; that in the first book there fhould be no fimile ; that the exordium fhould be very fimple and unadorned that in a tragedy , only three perfonages thould appear at once upon the stage ; and that every tragedy should ...
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