Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I(-II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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... never to complain . Finding now the judgment of the pub- lic to be favourable , ought , he not to draw fatisfaction from it ? He would be devoid of fenfibility were he not great- ly fatisfied . Many criticifms have in- deed reached his ...
... never to complain . Finding now the judgment of the pub- lic to be favourable , ought , he not to draw fatisfaction from it ? He would be devoid of fenfibility were he not great- ly fatisfied . Many criticifms have in- deed reached his ...
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... never to be fwayed a fec- ond time : he has now an additional motive to virtue , a conviction derived from experience , that happiness depends on regularity and order , and that difregard to juftice or propriety never fails to be ...
... never to be fwayed a fec- ond time : he has now an additional motive to virtue , a conviction derived from experience , that happiness depends on regularity and order , and that difregard to juftice or propriety never fails to be ...
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... never once have ftumbled upon the queftion , Whether , and how far , do thefe rules agree with human nature . It could not furely be his opinion , that thefe poets , however emi- nent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ...
... never once have ftumbled upon the queftion , Whether , and how far , do thefe rules agree with human nature . It could not furely be his opinion , that thefe poets , however emi- nent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ...
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... never returns to the question propofed in the beginning . Of Virgil's Georgics , though efteemed the most com- plete work of that author , the parts are ill connected , and the tranfitions far from being fweet and easy . In the first ...
... never returns to the question propofed in the beginning . Of Virgil's Georgics , though efteemed the most com- plete work of that author , the parts are ill connected , and the tranfitions far from being fweet and easy . In the first ...
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... never be relished Diftruft in lovers is too warm a fun ; But yet ' tis night in love when that is gone . And in thofe climes which moft his fcorching know , He makes the noblest fruits and metals grow . Part 2. Conqueft of Granada , a ...
... never be relished Diftruft in lovers is too warm a fun ; But yet ' tis night in love when that is gone . And in thofe climes which moft his fcorching know , He makes the noblest fruits and metals grow . Part 2. Conqueft of Granada , a ...
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