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And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It...

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift - Página 229
por Robert Shiells - 1753
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Fluent English I: I[-III, Volumen1

Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 páginas

...advancing things that are new as in giving 20 things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by...

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