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... sense is not concealed by any novelty of illustration or elegance of diction . This tissue of poetry , from which he seems to have hoped a lasting name , is totally neglected , and known only as it is appended to his plays . While ...
... sense is not concealed by any novelty of illustration or elegance of diction . This tissue of poetry , from which he seems to have hoped a lasting name , is totally neglected , and known only as it is appended to his plays . While ...
Page 82
... sense with sufficient certainty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the music of the numbers . If more help was wanting he had the poetical trans ...
... sense with sufficient certainty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the music of the numbers . If more help was wanting he had the poetical trans ...
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... sense a lover of his country , for society politically regulated is a state contradistinguished from a state of nature , and any attention to that coalition of interests which makes the happiness of a country is possible only to those ...
... sense a lover of his country , for society politically regulated is a state contradistinguished from a state of nature , and any attention to that coalition of interests which makes the happiness of a country is possible only to those ...
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... senses ; " to which he replied , " that he would take no other notice of what was said by so particular a man , than to declare , that as often as he played that part he would repeat the same pro- vocation . " He shows his opinion to be ...
... senses ; " to which he replied , " that he would take no other notice of what was said by so particular a man , than to declare , that as often as he played that part he would repeat the same pro- vocation . " He shows his opinion to be ...
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... sense of any disgrace but that of poverty . He told me , when he was doing that which raised Pope's resentment , that he should be put into the " Dunciad ; " but he had the fate of Cas- sandra . I gave no credit to his prediction , till ...
... sense of any disgrace but that of poverty . He told me , when he was doing that which raised Pope's resentment , that he should be put into the " Dunciad ; " but he had the fate of Cas- sandra . I gave no credit to his prediction , till ...
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