The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... leave you to the fatisfaction and teftimony of your own confcience , which though it be a filent panegyric , yet the best . is You are so easy of accefs , that Poplicola was not more , whofe doors were opened on the outfide to fave the ...
... leave you to the fatisfaction and teftimony of your own confcience , which though it be a filent panegyric , yet the best . is You are so easy of accefs , that Poplicola was not more , whofe doors were opened on the outfide to fave the ...
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... leave them wholly to the mercy of the reader . I will hope the best , that they will not be condemned ; but if they should , I have the excufe of an old gentlc- man , who , mounting on horseback before fome ladies , when I was present ...
... leave them wholly to the mercy of the reader . I will hope the best , that they will not be condemned ; but if they should , I have the excufe of an old gentlc- man , who , mounting on horseback before fome ladies , when I was present ...
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... jingles wit , who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for preferring the Englishman to the Roman : yet , with 7 of their their leave , I must prefume to fay , that 24 PREFACE .
... jingles wit , who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for preferring the Englishman to the Roman : yet , with 7 of their their leave , I must prefume to fay , that 24 PREFACE .
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Samuel Johnson. their leave , I must prefume to fay , that the things they admire , are not only glittering trifles , and so far from being witty , that in a ferious poem they are naufeous , because they are unnatural . Would any man ...
Samuel Johnson. their leave , I must prefume to fay , that the things they admire , are not only glittering trifles , and so far from being witty , that in a ferious poem they are naufeous , because they are unnatural . Would any man ...
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... leave off ; a continence which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any conceit which ...
... leave off ; a continence which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients , excepting Virgil and Horace . One of our late great poets is funk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any conceit which ...
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