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Page viii
... piece of the best poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this flight effay then was to you ; and am fecure of the kind re- ception you will now give to it ; im- proved , as I think it is , in fome re- fpects , and prefented to you ...
... piece of the best poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this flight effay then was to you ; and am fecure of the kind re- ception you will now give to it ; im- proved , as I think it is , in fome re- fpects , and prefented to you ...
Page ix
... piece , is fo apparent , that it hath not escaped the dulleft and least attentive of its critics . For , however all the different kinds of poetry might appear to enter into it , yet every one faw , that fome at least were very flightly ...
... piece , is fo apparent , that it hath not escaped the dulleft and least attentive of its critics . For , however all the different kinds of poetry might appear to enter into it , yet every one faw , that fome at least were very flightly ...
Page ix
... piece , from a fimple mistake about the drift of the fub- ject , but , also , from a total inapprehension of the genuine charm and beauty of the epiftolary method . And , because I take this to be a principal cause of the wrong ...
... piece , from a fimple mistake about the drift of the fub- ject , but , also , from a total inapprehension of the genuine charm and beauty of the epiftolary method . And , because I take this to be a principal cause of the wrong ...
Page ix
... piece ; for the meafure , in different fatires , appears to have been different . That the defign in him was one , I conclude , first , Because Ho- race exprefly informs us , that the form or kind . of writing in the fatires of Lucilius ...
... piece ; for the meafure , in different fatires , appears to have been different . That the defign in him was one , I conclude , first , Because Ho- race exprefly informs us , that the form or kind . of writing in the fatires of Lucilius ...
Page xiii
... piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of the subject , may fometimes lead him through a devious tract to it . Had his interpreters attended to this prac- tice , fo confonant to the rule of nature before ...
... piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of the subject , may fometimes lead him through a devious tract to it . Had his interpreters attended to this prac- tice , fo confonant to the rule of nature before ...
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