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... laft , fays the fame com- mentator , spoken in his early youth , as it were by chance , feems to have been OMINOUS . " I am not perfuaded that all true genius died with POPE : for one would be tempted to think , that the Seasons of ...
... laft , fays the fame com- mentator , spoken in his early youth , as it were by chance , feems to have been OMINOUS . " I am not perfuaded that all true genius died with POPE : for one would be tempted to think , that the Seasons of ...
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... wondered , that Longinus , who mentions Tully , fhould have taken no notice of Virgil . I fuppofe he thought him only a fervile copier of the Greeks . N 2 43. From 43 . • From the fame foes , at laft AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 179.
... wondered , that Longinus , who mentions Tully , fhould have taken no notice of Virgil . I fuppofe he thought him only a fervile copier of the Greeks . N 2 43. From 43 . • From the fame foes , at laft AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 179.
Page 180
... laft , and closed the scene , were plainly fuch as had feen the days of liberty , and felt the fad ef fects of its departure + . " SHAFTESBURY proceeds to obferve , that when defpotifm was fully established , not a • Ver . 686 . ADVICE ...
... laft , and closed the scene , were plainly fuch as had feen the days of liberty , and felt the fad ef fects of its departure + . " SHAFTESBURY proceeds to obferve , that when defpotifm was fully established , not a • Ver . 686 . ADVICE ...
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