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... profe ; and who know to fet a juft value on this accumula- tion of prettiness . May you long profper in your pretty ideas , and bring to perfection that pretty perfifflage which has gained you the esteem of all the petits - maitres in ...
... profe ; and who know to fet a juft value on this accumula- tion of prettiness . May you long profper in your pretty ideas , and bring to perfection that pretty perfifflage which has gained you the esteem of all the petits - maitres in ...
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... profe- cuting future attempts for this long fought difcovery , in the fol- lowing terms : I have mentioned in the following Tracts , that the Parliamentary rewards given for approaching within one degree of the North Pole are not likely ...
... profe- cuting future attempts for this long fought difcovery , in the fol- lowing terms : I have mentioned in the following Tracts , that the Parliamentary rewards given for approaching within one degree of the North Pole are not likely ...
Page 360
... profe ; but Pope did not borrow his profe from his predeceffor . The flyle of Dryden is capricious and varied , that of Pope is cautious and uniform ; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind , Pope conftrains his mind to his own rules ...
... profe ; but Pope did not borrow his profe from his predeceffor . The flyle of Dryden is capricious and varied , that of Pope is cautious and uniform ; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind , Pope conftrains his mind to his own rules ...
Page 390
... profe , a file of compofition we are not fond of . In juftice however to this performance , we must acknowledge , that we are feldom dif- appointed by an unmeaning pomp of words , or disgusted with low and unfuitable expreffions . But ...
... profe , a file of compofition we are not fond of . In juftice however to this performance , we must acknowledge , that we are feldom dif- appointed by an unmeaning pomp of words , or disgusted with low and unfuitable expreffions . But ...
Page 393
... profe and verfe , felected from the Spectator , Rambler , the World , and other periodical papers ; and alfo from the works of Swift , Pope , Parnel , Gay , Prior , Lyttelton , Hume , and other writers of distinguished character in the ...
... profe and verfe , felected from the Spectator , Rambler , the World , and other periodical papers ; and alfo from the works of Swift , Pope , Parnel , Gay , Prior , Lyttelton , Hume , and other writers of distinguished character in the ...
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