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... JOHN DENNIS , LEWIS THEOBALD , EDMUND CURL , the JOURNALISTS , & c . INDEX of PERSONS celebrated in this Poem . INDEX OF THINGS ( including Authors ) to be found in the Notes . APPENDIX . A [ 3 ] ADVERTISEMENT . I T will be fufficient.
... JOHN DENNIS , LEWIS THEOBALD , EDMUND CURL , the JOURNALISTS , & c . INDEX of PERSONS celebrated in this Poem . INDEX OF THINGS ( including Authors ) to be found in the Notes . APPENDIX . A [ 3 ] ADVERTISEMENT . I T will be fufficient.
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... JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are falfe , or trivial , or " both his thoughts are crude , and abor- ❝tive , his expreffions abfurd , his numbers " harth , and unmufical , without cadence , or " variety , his rhymes trivial , and common ...
... JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are falfe , or trivial , or " both his thoughts are crude , and abor- ❝tive , his expreffions abfurd , his numbers " harth , and unmufical , without cadence , or " variety , his rhymes trivial , and common ...
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... JOHN DENNIS ,, " That it is a wretched rhapfody , impu- " dently writ in emulation of the Cooper's Hill " of Sir John Denham .. The Author of it ❝is obfcure , is ambiguous , is affected , is te- " merarious , is barbarous . " ( a ) ...
... JOHN DENNIS ,, " That it is a wretched rhapfody , impu- " dently writ in emulation of the Cooper's Hill " of Sir John Denham .. The Author of it ❝is obfcure , is ambiguous , is affected , is te- " merarious , is barbarous . " ( a ) ...
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... JOHN DENNIS ; Who in his reflections on the Effay on Cri- ticism thus defcribeth him . " A little affected hypocrite , who has no- " thing in his mouth but candour , truth ,. " friendship , good nature , humanity , and magnanimity . He ...
... JOHN DENNIS ; Who in his reflections on the Effay on Cri- ticism thus defcribeth him . " A little affected hypocrite , who has no- " thing in his mouth but candour , truth ,. " friendship , good nature , humanity , and magnanimity . He ...
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... John Haywood . ] Whose Enterludes were printed in the time of Henry the eighth . VERSE 88. But liv'd in Settle's ... DENNIS Pref . to Rem , on Hom . 600 For the latter part of his Hiftory , fee the third Book , verse 238 . 2 So watchful ...
... John Haywood . ] Whose Enterludes were printed in the time of Henry the eighth . VERSE 88. But liv'd in Settle's ... DENNIS Pref . to Rem , on Hom . 600 For the latter part of his Hiftory , fee the third Book , verse 238 . 2 So watchful ...
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