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Page 124
... never pre- fumed to undertake more than one kind of dramatic poetry , if we except the CYCLOPS of Euripides . A poet never prefumed to plead in public , or to write history , or in- deed any confiderable work in profe . The fame actors ...
... never pre- fumed to undertake more than one kind of dramatic poetry , if we except the CYCLOPS of Euripides . A poet never prefumed to plead in public , or to write history , or in- deed any confiderable work in profe . The fame actors ...
Page 166
... never heard fo many fine things faid before ; en verite vous parlez cent fois mieux qu ' un PREDICA- TEUR . ' " " IT men like ourselves in foibles and weaknesses , from the pieces of the Other . VII . The Tender and the Graceful of ...
... never heard fo many fine things faid before ; en verite vous parlez cent fois mieux qu ' un PREDICA- TEUR . ' " " IT men like ourselves in foibles and weaknesses , from the pieces of the Other . VII . The Tender and the Graceful of ...
Page 187
... never been ex- celled . Erafmus , though a commentator , had tafte ; and tho ' a catholic , had charity . His learning was enlivened with wit ; and his orthodoxy was tempered with modera- tion . He was never dazzled with what ↑ Vol ...
... never been ex- celled . Erafmus , though a commentator , had tafte ; and tho ' a catholic , had charity . His learning was enlivened with wit ; and his orthodoxy was tempered with modera- tion . He was never dazzled with what ↑ Vol ...
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