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... live in after - times ) With fuch a trifler's name her pages blot : Known be the character , the thing forgot ; Let it , to disappoint each future aim , Live without fex , and die without a name ! Knows any one fo well ? -Sure no one ...
... live in after - times ) With fuch a trifler's name her pages blot : Known be the character , the thing forgot ; Let it , to disappoint each future aim , Live without fex , and die without a name ! Knows any one fo well ? -Sure no one ...
Page 73
... live , and be phyfician to myfelf . Whilft foul is join'd to body , whether fate Allot a longer or a shorter date , I'll make them live as brother fhould with brother , And keep them in good humour with each other . Mr. Churchill feems ...
... live , and be phyfician to myfelf . Whilft foul is join'd to body , whether fate Allot a longer or a shorter date , I'll make them live as brother fhould with brother , And keep them in good humour with each other . Mr. Churchill feems ...
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... lives near as long ) fuperi- or to Voltaire , as a great author , though hot as a man of wit . Julie is the capital piece of Rouf- feau's charming pen , and one of the fineft compofitions of the kind ever pub . Hifhed in any language ...
... lives near as long ) fuperi- or to Voltaire , as a great author , though hot as a man of wit . Julie is the capital piece of Rouf- feau's charming pen , and one of the fineft compofitions of the kind ever pub . Hifhed in any language ...
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... live , tho ' in our teeth are hurl'd , Those backney frumpets , PRUDENCE and the WORLD . .b And foon after he breaks out with all his , fpirit in the same strain . 6. Might the whole world be plac'd within my fpan , I would not be that ...
... live , tho ' in our teeth are hurl'd , Those backney frumpets , PRUDENCE and the WORLD . .b And foon after he breaks out with all his , fpirit in the same strain . 6. Might the whole world be plac'd within my fpan , I would not be that ...
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... lives to purchase an extent of territory to their country . The story well deferved indeed to be re- corded ; being truly , as Salluft calls it , facinus egregium & memorabile . It is alfo brought in , at a proper paufe , and without ...
... lives to purchase an extent of territory to their country . The story well deferved indeed to be re- corded ; being truly , as Salluft calls it , facinus egregium & memorabile . It is alfo brought in , at a proper paufe , and without ...
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Addiſon admirable Alcamenes Apelles becauſe bring certain taunts compofition criticifm itſelf criticiſms appeared critics is reaſonable critique elle-meme defcription deferves elegy employ themſelves fame fatirized favourite's reputa fays feeing the latent feems fentiments feveral fhaft of ridicule fhall fhould fince fome fore his criticiſms fpirit ftrokes fubject fuch proper objects genius greateſt haughty infolence hiftorian hiftory himſelf infolence of decifion injudicious and malevolent itfelf as lightly itſelf is abfurd Journal des Sçavans judgments are humour juft liger wrote modeſty moft Monody moſt muſt n'eft qu'un art nions number of thoſe paffage paffions Phidias philofophical pieces pleaſure in feeing plufieurs menfonges poem poet poetry been obliged praiſe prefent publiſhed racter raiſe his favourite's reafon reffemble le mieux ridicule of injudicious taunts and reflections thefe themſelves in pointing theſe thofe thoſe who bring Tibullus tion trifling critics ture extremely uſeful verfification Virgil Virgil's tomb world with diffidence Young here mentions
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