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... himself a fiddler ? Can no one judge a picture , but who is himself a layer of colours * ? " Quintilian and Pliny , who speak of the works of the ancient painters and statuaries , with so much taste and fentiment , handled not ...
... himself a fiddler ? Can no one judge a picture , but who is himself a layer of colours * ? " Quintilian and Pliny , who speak of the works of the ancient painters and statuaries , with so much taste and fentiment , handled not ...
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... himself attempted a tragedy on the ftory of TIMOLEON , but hot fatisfying himself , laid it afide . Pope told Mr. Harte , that Fenton's Epiftle to Lambard was the moft Horatian epiftle in our language . I envy Fenton , faid he , that ...
... himself attempted a tragedy on the ftory of TIMOLEON , but hot fatisfying himself , laid it afide . Pope told Mr. Harte , that Fenton's Epiftle to Lambard was the moft Horatian epiftle in our language . I envy Fenton , faid he , that ...
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... himself , had not his modesty been overcome by the invita- tion of all who fate at the table ; that Lucan entered at the head of many hifto- rians with Pompey , and that seeing Homer and Virgil at the table , was going to fit down himself ...
... himself , had not his modesty been overcome by the invita- tion of all who fate at the table ; that Lucan entered at the head of many hifto- rians with Pompey , and that seeing Homer and Virgil at the table , was going to fit down himself ...
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