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... reader bas bere a much more correct and compleat copy of the DUN- CIAD , than has hitherto appeared : I cannot answer but fome Miftakes may have flipt into it , but a vast number of others will be prevented , by the Names being now not ...
... reader bas bere a much more correct and compleat copy of the DUN- CIAD , than has hitherto appeared : I cannot answer but fome Miftakes may have flipt into it , but a vast number of others will be prevented , by the Names being now not ...
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... reader of hu- manity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter , is not indulging his own Ill nature , but only punishing that of others . To his Poem thofe alone are capa- ble to do Juftice , who to use the words of . a ...
... reader of hu- manity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter , is not indulging his own Ill nature , but only punishing that of others . To his Poem thofe alone are capa- ble to do Juftice , who to use the words of . a ...
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... reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tedious ; allow me to take the fame pain to find whe- ther my author were good or bad , well or ill - natured , modeft or arrogant ; as ano- ther , whether his were fair ...
... reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tedious ; allow me to take the fame pain to find whe- ther my author were good or bad , well or ill - natured , modeft or arrogant ; as ano- ther , whether his were fair ...
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... reader has difcover'd in it fome- " thing new , which is not in Dryden's pre- " faces , dedications , and his effay on drama- " tick poetry , not to mention the French cri- " ticks ; I fhould be very glad to have the " benefit of the ...
... reader has difcover'd in it fome- " thing new , which is not in Dryden's pre- " faces , dedications , and his effay on drama- " tick poetry , not to mention the French cri- " ticks ; I fhould be very glad to have the " benefit of the ...
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... reader muft affent to , when he fees them " explain'd with that eafe and perfpicuity " in which they are delivered . As for thofe which are the most known and the most re- " ceiv'd , they are placed in fo beautiful a light , and ...
... reader muft affent to , when he fees them " explain'd with that eafe and perfpicuity " in which they are delivered . As for thofe which are the most known and the most re- " ceiv'd , they are placed in fo beautiful a light , and ...
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