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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 should be very fimple and unadorned : that in a tragedy , only three perfonages should appear at once upon the ftage ; and that every tragedy ...
... should end fortunately ; that in the first book there fhould be no fimile ; that the exordium should be very fimple and unadorned : that in a tragedy , only three perfonages should appear at once upon the ftage ; and that every tragedy ...
Page 345
... should have ended ; for the eight additional verses , concerning fome poet , that haply might arife to fing their misfortune , are languid and flat , and di- minish the pathos of the foregoing fenti- ments . They might stand it should ...
... should have ended ; for the eight additional verses , concerning fome poet , that haply might arife to fing their misfortune , are languid and flat , and di- minish the pathos of the foregoing fenti- ments . They might stand it should ...
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