The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... most tender affection after his death . His refentment was too easily excited , and his revenge carried to too great a length . The provocation he received by no means juftified , in many cafes , the fevere fatire of the Dunciad . His ...
... most tender affection after his death . His refentment was too easily excited , and his revenge carried to too great a length . The provocation he received by no means juftified , in many cafes , the fevere fatire of the Dunciad . His ...
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... most highly finished , and certainly the most interesting of the pieces of Pope ; and , together with the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is the only inftance of the pathetic he has given us . " The translation of Homer is a performance ...
... most highly finished , and certainly the most interesting of the pieces of Pope ; and , together with the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is the only inftance of the pathetic he has given us . " The translation of Homer is a performance ...
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... most poetic species of poetry : whence it is manifeft , that good sense and judgment were his characteristical excellencies , rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock and Eloifsa can be thought to ...
... most poetic species of poetry : whence it is manifeft , that good sense and judgment were his characteristical excellencies , rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock and Eloifsa can be thought to ...
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... most infig- nificant of all dunces , bad rhymers , and malevo◅ lent cavillers ; that he ought to raife and enoble it , by pointing his fatire against the most pernicious of all , m.nute philofophers and freethinkers . I imagined too ...
... most infig- nificant of all dunces , bad rhymers , and malevo◅ lent cavillers ; that he ought to raife and enoble it , by pointing his fatire against the most pernicious of all , m.nute philofophers and freethinkers . I imagined too ...
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... most know ing , he is as fure of being envied by the worft and moft ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius , as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not able to follow it : and it is to ...
... most know ing , he is as fure of being envied by the worft and moft ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius , as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not able to follow it : and it is to ...
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