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... ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and com- mon things : he is neither required to mount eleva tions , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is al- ways on a level , along solid ground , without B. 5 SWIFT .
... ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and com- mon things : he is neither required to mount eleva tions , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is al- ways on a level , along solid ground , without B. 5 SWIFT .
Page 42
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocular- ity ; but he apparently ...
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocular- ity ; but he apparently ...
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... common readers . Eustathius was therefore necessarily consulted . To read Eustathius , of whose work there was then no Latin version , I suspect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; some other was there- fore to be ...
... common readers . Eustathius was therefore necessarily consulted . To read Eustathius , of whose work there was then no Latin version , I suspect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; some other was there- fore to be ...
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... common friend .. When Addison's opinion was asked , he declared the versions to be both good , but Tickell's the best that had ever been written ; and sometimes said , that they were both good , but that . Tickell had more of Homer ...
... common friend .. When Addison's opinion was asked , he declared the versions to be both good , but Tickell's the best that had ever been written ; and sometimes said , that they were both good , but that . Tickell had more of Homer ...
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... common readers . Many of the allusions required illus- tration ; the names were often expressed only by the initial and final letters , and , if they had been printed at length , were such as few had known or recollected . The subject ...
... common readers . Many of the allusions required illus- tration ; the names were often expressed only by the initial and final letters , and , if they had been printed at length , were such as few had known or recollected . The subject ...
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