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... writer of these fheets then believed it might be of use , if he took fome pains to clear the fenfe , connect the method , and afcertain the scope and purpose , of this admired epiftle . Others , he knew indeed , and fome of the firft ...
... writer of these fheets then believed it might be of use , if he took fome pains to clear the fenfe , connect the method , and afcertain the scope and purpose , of this admired epiftle . Others , he knew indeed , and fome of the firft ...
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... writers both at home and abroad , to supply its deficien- cies . But , though this truth was feen and confessed , it unluckily happened , that the faga city of his numerous commentators went no fur- ther . They ftill confidered this ...
... writers both at home and abroad , to supply its deficien- cies . But , though this truth was feen and confessed , it unluckily happened , that the faga city of his numerous commentators went no fur- ther . They ftill confidered this ...
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... writer , I will take the liberty to enlarge upon it . THE EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but ... writers , which seem not reducible to either of these two claffes , they are to be re- garded only , as the ...
... writer , I will take the liberty to enlarge upon it . THE EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but ... writers , which seem not reducible to either of these two claffes , they are to be re- garded only , as the ...
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... the best that ever was given of any claffic , hath now retrieved and established the full credit of it . What was the amufement of his pen , becomes , indeed , indeed , the labour of inferior writers . Yet , INTRODUCTION . XV.
... the best that ever was given of any claffic , hath now retrieved and established the full credit of it . What was the amufement of his pen , becomes , indeed , indeed , the labour of inferior writers . Yet , INTRODUCTION . XV.
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Horace. indeed , the labour of inferior writers . Yet , on thefe unequal terms , it can be no difcredit to have aimed at some resemblance of one of the leaft of those merits , which fhed their united honours on the name of the ...
Horace. indeed , the labour of inferior writers . Yet , on thefe unequal terms , it can be no difcredit to have aimed at some resemblance of one of the leaft of those merits , which fhed their united honours on the name of the ...
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