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... Poetic . ARITHMETIC . fee KEITH . 77 See PYE . See TAYLOR , ARLEVILLE on French Subftan- tives , ARMY Lift , ART of ... Poem , 509 283 BIBLIOTHECA Topographica Bri- tannica , No. 46 , 47 , 48. 308 BIDDLE , Mr. Life of , BIRCH's Abbey of ...
... Poetic . ARITHMETIC . fee KEITH . 77 See PYE . See TAYLOR , ARLEVILLE on French Subftan- tives , ARMY Lift , ART of ... Poem , 509 283 BIBLIOTHECA Topographica Bri- tannica , No. 46 , 47 , 48. 308 BIDDLE , Mr. Life of , BIRCH's Abbey of ...
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... Poem , 181 625 88 FLORA Rofica , Pars II . FRAGMENT , which dropped from a certain Lord's Pocket , FRANKLYN'S Obfervations on Slavery , Anfwer to Clarkson , 91 92 FRENCH Morality cut fhort , 174 MSS . Account and Ex- tracts of , 565 ...
... Poem , 181 625 88 FLORA Rofica , Pars II . FRAGMENT , which dropped from a certain Lord's Pocket , FRANKLYN'S Obfervations on Slavery , Anfwer to Clarkson , 91 92 FRENCH Morality cut fhort , 174 MSS . Account and Ex- tracts of , 565 ...
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... poetry of a modern . Is it not , therefore , to be lamented , that the author did not reftrain the eager impulfes of his genius , and write with rather more deliberation ... poets to 7 have 4 Glaffe's Tranflation of Samfon Agonistes .
... poetry of a modern . Is it not , therefore , to be lamented , that the author did not reftrain the eager impulfes of his genius , and write with rather more deliberation ... poets to 7 have 4 Glaffe's Tranflation of Samfon Agonistes .
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have been the common practice of the comic poets to copy and burlesque the writings of the tragic writers , and to introduce the moft ferious fentiments into their plays for the moft ridi- culous purposes . This is not a place to ...
have been the common practice of the comic poets to copy and burlesque the writings of the tragic writers , and to introduce the moft ferious fentiments into their plays for the moft ridi- culous purposes . This is not a place to ...
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... poets indulged themfelves , in the compofitions of the Choral Odes , were fo numerous and fo extenfive , particularly with regard to the arrangement and correfpondence of different poetic feet , that it is frequently neither eafy nor ...
... poets indulged themfelves , in the compofitions of the Choral Odes , were fo numerous and fo extenfive , particularly with regard to the arrangement and correfpondence of different poetic feet , that it is frequently neither eafy nor ...
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