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Page 117
... pleasing precepts , and therefore re- lates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer with the rudiments of narration , which he must improve and exalt by a nobler art , must animate by dramatick ...
... pleasing precepts , and therefore re- lates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer with the rudiments of narration , which he must improve and exalt by a nobler art , must animate by dramatick ...
Page 190
... pleasing to dis- cover that his piety was without weakness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions of ...
... pleasing to dis- cover that his piety was without weakness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions of ...
Page 234
... happily turned ; and in all his writings there are pleasing passages . He has however more elegance than vigour , and seldom rises higher than to be pretty . DRYDEN Of the great poet whose life I am about 234 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... happily turned ; and in all his writings there are pleasing passages . He has however more elegance than vigour , and seldom rises higher than to be pretty . DRYDEN Of the great poet whose life I am about 234 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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