The Dunciad, Variorum 1729 |
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... master - piece in its kind . The observations follow one ano- 166 << ther , like thofe in Horace's art of poetry , without that methodical " regularity , which would have been requifite in a profe writer . They are some of them uncommon ...
... master - piece in its kind . The observations follow one ano- 166 << ther , like thofe in Horace's art of poetry , without that methodical " regularity , which would have been requifite in a profe writer . They are some of them uncommon ...
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... master " of an easy , and elegant verfification : In all his works , we find the " most happy turns , and natural fimiles , wonderfully short and thick " fown . " The Effay on the Dunciad also owns , pag . 25. it is of beautiful Images ...
... master " of an easy , and elegant verfification : In all his works , we find the " most happy turns , and natural fimiles , wonderfully short and thick " fown . " The Effay on the Dunciad also owns , pag . 25. it is of beautiful Images ...
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... master of all Styles , and all Argu- ments ; And that there was in thofe times no other writer , in any kind , of any degree of excellence fave he himself . But as this is not our own fentiment , we fhall determine on nothing ; but ...
... master of all Styles , and all Argu- ments ; And that there was in thofe times no other writer , in any kind , of any degree of excellence fave he himself . But as this is not our own fentiment , we fhall determine on nothing ; but ...
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