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Page 37
... virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he does not ...
... virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he does not ...
Page 38
... virtue or of truth . " Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spite- ful strokes at religion in general ; while others make them- selves pleasant with the principles of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen ...
... virtue or of truth . " Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spite- ful strokes at religion in general ; while others make them- selves pleasant with the principles of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen ...
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... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is it to ...
... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is it to ...
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... virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved . His name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it became at last a bye - word of contempt ; but it deserves observation , that ...
... virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved . His name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it became at last a bye - word of contempt ; but it deserves observation , that ...
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... virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from " Prince Arthur , " the song of Mopas , mentioned by Molineux : But that which Arthur with mos pleasure heard Were noble ...
... virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from " Prince Arthur , " the song of Mopas , mentioned by Molineux : But that which Arthur with mos pleasure heard Were noble ...
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