The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
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... tell you thefe Things as News : You are too well acquainted with them , to learn from Pere Bouhours , or the beft of his Difciples ; tho ' Mr. ADDISON look'd upon him to be the most penetrating of all the French Criticks . I only lay ...
... tell you thefe Things as News : You are too well acquainted with them , to learn from Pere Bouhours , or the beft of his Difciples ; tho ' Mr. ADDISON look'd upon him to be the most penetrating of all the French Criticks . I only lay ...
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... tells us the ingenious Author call'd it an agreeable Monster . When the learned Critick is giving Laws to his Readers , be gives himself a Superiority over them , which is very grateful to corrupt Nature , and very natural în Pe- dants ...
... tells us the ingenious Author call'd it an agreeable Monster . When the learned Critick is giving Laws to his Readers , be gives himself a Superiority over them , which is very grateful to corrupt Nature , and very natural în Pe- dants ...
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... tell Dr. Felton , and fuch fort of Criticks , there is too much Wit in a Play , would make you be star'd at and laugh'd ... tells us of Expreffion , in a Comparison between Aristophanes and Menander : " The Difference in Diction , fays ...
... tell Dr. Felton , and fuch fort of Criticks , there is too much Wit in a Play , would make you be star'd at and laugh'd ... tells us of Expreffion , in a Comparison between Aristophanes and Menander : " The Difference in Diction , fays ...
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... tells uts , I believe it will be found a true Obfervation , that there never was any thing fo abfurd and ridi- culous , but has , one Time or other , been written even by fome Author of Reputation . A Reflecti- on it may not be improper ...
... tells uts , I believe it will be found a true Obfervation , that there never was any thing fo abfurd and ridi- culous , but has , one Time or other , been written even by fome Author of Reputation . A Reflecti- on it may not be improper ...
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... tell us what they would have , and we then shall not fail to do our felves that Honour . If any one elfe , who is fenfible of Modefty , and Master of the Subject , fhall fhew me where I have err'd , I will not fail to acknowledge and ...
... tell us what they would have , and we then shall not fail to do our felves that Honour . If any one elfe , who is fenfible of Modefty , and Master of the Subject , fhall fhew me where I have err'd , I will not fail to acknowledge and ...
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