The Dunciad, Variorum 1729 |
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... thoughts over again , making them still more trite . Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert , infipid heap of common place . Horace has even in his Art of " " poetry thrown out several things which plainly fhew , he thought an ...
... thoughts over again , making them still more trite . Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert , infipid heap of common place . Horace has even in his Art of " " poetry thrown out several things which plainly fhew , he thought an ...
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... thought to thought , a vast profound ! Plung'd for his fenfe , but found no bottom there Then writ , and flounder'd on , in mere despair . 115 He roll'd his eyes that witnefs'd huge difmay , Where yet unpawn'd , much learned lumber lay ...
... thought to thought , a vast profound ! Plung'd for his fenfe , but found no bottom there Then writ , and flounder'd on , in mere despair . 115 He roll'd his eyes that witnefs'd huge difmay , Where yet unpawn'd , much learned lumber lay ...
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... thoughts to the standard of Paftoral ; as his contention of Colin Clout and the Nightingale fhows with what exactnefs he hath imitated every line in Strada . 6 When I remarked it as a principal fault , to introduce ... thought 106 APPENDIX.
... thoughts to the standard of Paftoral ; as his contention of Colin Clout and the Nightingale fhows with what exactnefs he hath imitated every line in Strada . 6 When I remarked it as a principal fault , to introduce ... thought 106 APPENDIX.
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