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Page 50
... performances one by one would be tedious . His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few readers , while another can be had in rhyme . The piece ad- dressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen of episto- lary poetry ...
... performances one by one would be tedious . His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few readers , while another can be had in rhyme . The piece ad- dressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen of episto- lary poetry ...
Page 54
... performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty , and was so much favoured by the audience , that envy appeared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a ...
... performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty , and was so much favoured by the audience , that envy appeared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a ...
Page 57
... performance , when it was printed , the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest ...
... performance , when it was printed , the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest ...
Page 59
... performance , " The Rural Sports , " is such as was easily planned and executed ; it is never contemptible nor ever excellent . The " Fan " is one of those mythological fictions which antiquity delivers ready to the hand , but which ...
... performance , " The Rural Sports , " is such as was easily planned and executed ; it is never contemptible nor ever excellent . The " Fan " is one of those mythological fictions which antiquity delivers ready to the hand , but which ...
Page 65
... performance is a defence of his relation Sir Richard Greenville , whom Lord Clarendon has shewn in a form very unamiable . So much is urged in this apology to justify many actions that have been represented as culpable , and to palliate ...
... performance is a defence of his relation Sir Richard Greenville , whom Lord Clarendon has shewn in a form very unamiable . So much is urged in this apology to justify many actions that have been represented as culpable , and to palliate ...
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