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Page 68
... French poefy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a legitimate ode , though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to recommend them . The Odes of la Motte , tho ' so highly praised by Sanadon , and by ...
... French poefy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a legitimate ode , though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to recommend them . The Odes of la Motte , tho ' so highly praised by Sanadon , and by ...
Page 274
... French and English theatres . Terror reigned in the former ; pity occupies the latter . The moderns may yet boast of fome pieces , that are not emasculated with this epidemical effeminacy . Racine was at laft convinced of its ...
... French and English theatres . Terror reigned in the former ; pity occupies the latter . The moderns may yet boast of fome pieces , that are not emasculated with this epidemical effeminacy . Racine was at laft convinced of its ...
Page 380
... French , Italian , and Spanish of thefe latter ages . In- deed there is a vaft difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their undoubted due of ...
... French , Italian , and Spanish of thefe latter ages . In- deed there is a vaft difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their undoubted due of ...
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