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Joseph Warton. et limatum * . " In the earliest letters of POPE to Wycherley , to Walsh , and Crom- well , we find many admirable and acute judgments of men and books , and an inti- mate acquaintance not only with some of ... letters of ...
Joseph Warton. et limatum * . " In the earliest letters of POPE to Wycherley , to Walsh , and Crom- well , we find many admirable and acute judgments of men and books , and an inti- mate acquaintance not only with some of ... letters of ...
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... Letter from Italy , is by no means equal to a subject fruitful of genuine poetry , and which might have warmed the moft cold and correct imagination . One would have expected , a young traveller in the height of his genius and judgment ...
... Letter from Italy , is by no means equal to a subject fruitful of genuine poetry , and which might have warmed the moft cold and correct imagination . One would have expected , a young traveller in the height of his genius and judgment ...
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... letters . The beauty of this writer , is his expreffive brevity ; which lord Hervey has lengthened to a degree that is unnatural ; efpecially , as Roxana is ' fuppofed to write juft after he has fwal- lowed a deadly poifon , and during ...
... letters . The beauty of this writer , is his expreffive brevity ; which lord Hervey has lengthened to a degree that is unnatural ; efpecially , as Roxana is ' fuppofed to write juft after he has fwal- lowed a deadly poifon , and during ...
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