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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... hath to Plato , Jamblichus to Pythagoras , and divers to Ho- mer , namely a dæmon : for thus Mr. Gildon ( 7 ) : " Certain it is , that his original is not from Adam , " but the devil ; and that he wanteth nothing but " horns and tail to ...
... hath to Plato , Jamblichus to Pythagoras , and divers to Ho- mer , namely a dæmon : for thus Mr. Gildon ( 7 ) : " Certain it is , that his original is not from Adam , " but the devil ; and that he wanteth nothing but " horns and tail to ...
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... hath faid in his Preface to that poet . MR . OLDMIXON " to be found in his Homer ; and faying there are " more good verfes in Dryden's Virgil than in any " other work , except this of our author only ( t ) . The Author of a Letter to MR ...
... hath faid in his Preface to that poet . MR . OLDMIXON " to be found in his Homer ; and faying there are " more good verfes in Dryden's Virgil than in any " other work , except this of our author only ( t ) . The Author of a Letter to MR ...
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... hath lately met with , I was furprif- ed to fee what I had long defpaired , a perfor- mance deferving the name of a poet . Such , Sir , is your work . It is indeed above all commen- ( y ) Gilber's Letter to Mr. Pope , p . 9—12 ...
... hath lately met with , I was furprif- ed to fee what I had long defpaired , a perfor- mance deferving the name of a poet . Such , Sir , is your work . It is indeed above all commen- ( y ) Gilber's Letter to Mr. Pope , p . 9—12 ...
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... hath been said , the difcerning reader will collect , that it little availed our author to have any candour , fince , when he declared he did not write for others , it was not credited ' ; as little to have any modefty , fince , when he ...
... hath been said , the difcerning reader will collect , that it little availed our author to have any candour , fince , when he declared he did not write for others , it was not credited ' ; as little to have any modefty , fince , when he ...
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... hath been extolled by one or other of his most inveterate enemies ; and to the fuccefs of them all they do unanimoufly give teftimony . But it is fufficient , in- The faid MR . DENNIS and MR . GILDON , flar omnium , to behold the great ...
... hath been extolled by one or other of his most inveterate enemies ; and to the fuccefs of them all they do unanimoufly give teftimony . But it is fufficient , in- The faid MR . DENNIS and MR . GILDON , flar omnium , to behold the great ...
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