The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... Reason , " and " the Prince of Rhyme , " have ex- haufted the copiousness of Ruffhead , and received every poffible illuftration from the candid and well informed criticism of Spence , the elegant and claffical tafte of Dr. Warton , and ...
... Reason , " and " the Prince of Rhyme , " have ex- haufted the copiousness of Ruffhead , and received every poffible illuftration from the candid and well informed criticism of Spence , the elegant and claffical tafte of Dr. Warton , and ...
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... reason to believe that he compofed the Dunciad , partly to be revenged on those who had abufed him , and partly to difplay his own fuperiority . He degraded himself by beftowing on fcribbling calumniators , even the notice of refentment ...
... reason to believe that he compofed the Dunciad , partly to be revenged on those who had abufed him , and partly to difplay his own fuperiority . He degraded himself by beftowing on fcribbling calumniators , even the notice of refentment ...
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... reason can be given . He was fometimes wanton in his attacks , before Chandos , Lady Mary Wortley Montague , and Hill , niean in his retreat . Though , on the whole , a man of integrity , he frequently used artifices that bordered on ...
... reason can be given . He was fometimes wanton in his attacks , before Chandos , Lady Mary Wortley Montague , and Hill , niean in his retreat . Though , on the whole , a man of integrity , he frequently used artifices that bordered on ...
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... reason , to their ends , the co - operation of the prin- ciples of felf - love and benevolence , in producing happiness , the uncertainty of physical good , that man's fupreme felicity confifts in moral good , that we are very weak in ...
... reason , to their ends , the co - operation of the prin- ciples of felf - love and benevolence , in producing happiness , the uncertainty of physical good , that man's fupreme felicity confifts in moral good , that we are very weak in ...
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... reason , the first of ethical au- thors in verfe . Where then fhall we , with justice , be authorised to place our admired Pope ? Not affuredly in the fame rank with Spenfer , Shakspeare , and Milton ; however justly we may applaud the ...
... reason , the first of ethical au- thors in verfe . Where then fhall we , with justice , be authorised to place our admired Pope ? Not affuredly in the fame rank with Spenfer , Shakspeare , and Milton ; however justly we may applaud the ...
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