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... poet the juftice to obferve , that it is this particular art that is the very diftin- guishing excellence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which , the descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ftill tending to fome ...
... poet the juftice to obferve , that it is this particular art that is the very diftin- guishing excellence of COOPER'S - HILL ; throughout which , the descriptions of places , and images raised by the poet , are ftill tending to fome ...
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... poet would be able to write but very indifferent comedies . Congreve however was but nineteen when he wrote his Old ... poets ripened fo carly as POPE ; who feems feems literally and ftrictly to have fulfilled the precept of AND WRITINGS ...
... poet would be able to write but very indifferent comedies . Congreve however was but nineteen when he wrote his Old ... poets ripened fo carly as POPE ; who feems feems literally and ftrictly to have fulfilled the precept of AND WRITINGS ...
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... poet is qualified to judge of a poet . The maxim is however contradicted by experience . Ariftotle is faid indeed to have written one ode ; but neither Boffu nor Hurd are poets . The penetrating author of the Reflections on Poetry ...
... poet is qualified to judge of a poet . The maxim is however contradicted by experience . Ariftotle is faid indeed to have written one ode ; but neither Boffu nor Hurd are poets . The penetrating author of the Reflections on Poetry ...
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