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... O direful Mars ! why art thou still de- lighted with blood and with death , and why an enemy to the feasts of Bacchus ? ” And • Ver . 793 . - ftill a ftill more glaring inftance may be brought from the 72 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... O direful Mars ! why art thou still de- lighted with blood and with death , and why an enemy to the feasts of Bacchus ? ” And • Ver . 793 . - ftill a ftill more glaring inftance may be brought from the 72 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... ftill in right of Horace fways * . MAY I be pardoned for declaring it as my opinion , that Boileau's is the best + Art of Poetry extant ? The brevity of his precepts , enlivened by proper imagery , the juftness of his metaphors , the ...
... ftill in right of Horace fways * . MAY I be pardoned for declaring it as my opinion , that Boileau's is the best + Art of Poetry extant ? The brevity of his precepts , enlivened by proper imagery , the juftness of his metaphors , the ...
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... ftill left open for him , by which he might excel any of his predeceffors , which was , by CORRECTNESS ; that though indeed we had several great poets , we as yet could boast of none that were perfectly CORRECT ; and that therefore , he ...
... ftill left open for him , by which he might excel any of his predeceffors , which was , by CORRECTNESS ; that though indeed we had several great poets , we as yet could boast of none that were perfectly CORRECT ; and that therefore , he ...
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