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Our author's leading principle is , that Happiness is attainable by all men ; For mourn our various portions as we please , Equal is common Senfe , and common Eafe . So So Horace alfo in Epift . 18. B. i . 112 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Our author's leading principle is , that Happiness is attainable by all men ; For mourn our various portions as we please , Equal is common Senfe , and common Eafe . So So Horace alfo in Epift . 18. B. i . 112 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 113
So Horace alfo in Epift . 18. B. i . Equum mî animum ipfe parabo . " But Horace ( fays a penetrating obferver on human life ) was grossly mistaken : the thing for which he thought he stood in no need of Jupiter's affiftance , was what ...
So Horace alfo in Epift . 18. B. i . Equum mî animum ipfe parabo . " But Horace ( fays a penetrating obferver on human life ) was grossly mistaken : the thing for which he thought he stood in no need of Jupiter's affiftance , was what ...
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carry the fatire still higher , and can hardly be thought to be excelled by any strokes of irony and humour in the best parts of Horace , Juvenal , or Boileau . * His Grace will game ; to White's a bull be led , With fpurning heels ...
carry the fatire still higher , and can hardly be thought to be excelled by any strokes of irony and humour in the best parts of Horace , Juvenal , or Boileau . * His Grace will game ; to White's a bull be led , With fpurning heels ...
Page 191
And Lady Wortley Montague joined in the accufation , in her Verfes addreffed to the Imitator of Horace * . The Duke , though at firft alarmed , was , it is faid , afterwards convinced of our author's innocence .
And Lady Wortley Montague joined in the accufation , in her Verfes addreffed to the Imitator of Horace * . The Duke , though at firft alarmed , was , it is faid , afterwards convinced of our author's innocence .
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And HORACE and VIRGIL and BOILEAU were formed , before they had an opportunity of flattering AUGUSTUS and LEWIS XIV . THOUGH POPE enlifted under the banner of BOLINGBROKE , in what was called the country party , and in violent ...
And HORACE and VIRGIL and BOILEAU were formed , before they had an opportunity of flattering AUGUSTUS and LEWIS XIV . THOUGH POPE enlifted under the banner of BOLINGBROKE , in what was called the country party , and in violent ...
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