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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... true genius is but rare , True taste as feldom is the critic's share ; Both muft alike from Heaven derive their light , Thefe born to judge , as well as thofe to write . Let fuch teach others who themselves excel , And cenfure freely ...
... true genius is but rare , True taste as feldom is the critic's share ; Both muft alike from Heaven derive their light , Thefe born to judge , as well as thofe to write . Let fuch teach others who themselves excel , And cenfure freely ...
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... true mettle when you check his courfe . Thofe rules of old difcover'd , not devis'd , Are nature ftill , but nature methodis'd : Nature , like liberty , is but reftrain'd By the fame laws which firft herself ordain'd . Hear how learn'd ...
... true mettle when you check his courfe . Thofe rules of old difcover'd , not devis'd , Are nature ftill , but nature methodis'd : Nature , like liberty , is but reftrain'd By the fame laws which firft herself ordain'd . Hear how learn'd ...
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... true mettle when you check his courfe . Thofe rules of old difcover'd , not devis'd , Are nature ftill , but nature methodis'd : Nature , like liberty , is but reftrain'd By the fame laws which firft herself ordain'd . Hear how learn'd ...
... true mettle when you check his courfe . Thofe rules of old difcover'd , not devis'd , Are nature ftill , but nature methodis'd : Nature , like liberty , is but reftrain'd By the fame laws which firft herself ordain'd . Hear how learn'd ...
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... True wit is nature to advantage drefs'd , What oft was thought , but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something , whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find , That gives us back the image of our mind . As fhades more fweetly recommend the light ...
... True wit is nature to advantage drefs'd , What oft was thought , but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something , whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find , That gives us back the image of our mind . As fhades more fweetly recommend the light ...
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... true . Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own , But catch the spreading notion of the town ; They reafon and conclude by precedent , And own ftale nonsense which they ne'er invent . Some judge of authors names , not works , and then ...
... true . Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own , But catch the spreading notion of the town ; They reafon and conclude by precedent , And own ftale nonsense which they ne'er invent . Some judge of authors names , not works , and then ...
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