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... extraordinary efforts at that age ! To thefe however Ad- difon owed his introduction at court , and his acquaintance with that polite patron Lord Somers . ly of ly fentiments of freedom . It is a copy 276 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... extraordinary efforts at that age ! To thefe however Ad- difon owed his introduction at court , and his acquaintance with that polite patron Lord Somers . ly of ly fentiments of freedom . It is a copy 276 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 298
... fentiments , and the most sudden and violent turns of paffion to be difplayed . Ovid may , perhaps , ` be blamed for a fameness of subjects , in these epiftles of his heroines ; whole diftreffes are almost all occafioned by their lovers ...
... fentiments , and the most sudden and violent turns of paffion to be difplayed . Ovid may , perhaps , ` be blamed for a fameness of subjects , in these epiftles of his heroines ; whole diftreffes are almost all occafioned by their lovers ...
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... fentiments of this vi- fion . His own is introduced and carried on with that vein of propriety and poetry , for which this fpecies of his writings is so justly celebrated , and which contribute to place him at the head of allegorical ...
... fentiments of this vi- fion . His own is introduced and carried on with that vein of propriety and poetry , for which this fpecies of his writings is so justly celebrated , and which contribute to place him at the head of allegorical ...
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