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Joseph Warton. the and some of those dialogues he has translated with their original spirit . Indeed , among many tranflators of Greek authors who flou- rifhed at that time , Erafmus feems to have been in all refpects the most eminent ...
Joseph Warton. the and some of those dialogues he has translated with their original spirit . Indeed , among many tranflators of Greek authors who flou- rifhed at that time , Erafmus feems to have been in all refpects the most eminent ...
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... spirit , if not of a poet , yet of an amiable old Man . 50. Such was ROSCOMMON * , AN ESSAY on Tranflated Verfe feems at first fight to be a barren fubject ; yet Rof- common has decorated it with many precepts * Ver . 726 . of of ...
... spirit , if not of a poet , yet of an amiable old Man . 50. Such was ROSCOMMON * , AN ESSAY on Tranflated Verfe feems at first fight to be a barren fubject ; yet Rof- common has decorated it with many precepts * Ver . 726 . of of ...
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... spirit enough , publicly to * The editors of Milton have been curious in endeavouring X to search out who were the very first persons that brought the Paradise Loft into vogue and efteem . The following is , I believe , the very firft ...
... spirit enough , publicly to * The editors of Milton have been curious in endeavouring X to search out who were the very first persons that brought the Paradise Loft into vogue and efteem . The following is , I believe , the very firft ...
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... spirit so much in vogue , which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature , by confulting only REASON , has not diminish- ed and destroyed SENTIMENT ; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD ra- ther than the ...
... spirit so much in vogue , which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature , by confulting only REASON , has not diminish- ed and destroyed SENTIMENT ; and made our poets write from and to the HEAD ra- ther than the ...
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... spirit and drollery . Rowe's genius * was rather deli- cate and foft , than ftrong and pathetic ; his compofitions footh us with a tranquil and tender fort of complacency , rather than cleave the heart with pangs of commifera- tion ...
... spirit and drollery . Rowe's genius * was rather deli- cate and foft , than ftrong and pathetic ; his compofitions footh us with a tranquil and tender fort of complacency , rather than cleave the heart with pangs of commifera- tion ...
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