The Dunciad, Variorum 1729 |
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... ESSAY ON CRITICISM ? Be it as it will , the reafons of their Admiration and of his Contempt are equally fubfifting ; for His Works and Theirs are the very fame that they were . b 2 One therefore of their accufations I believe may be ...
... ESSAY ON CRITICISM ? Be it as it will , the reafons of their Admiration and of his Contempt are equally fubfifting ; for His Works and Theirs are the very fame that they were . b 2 One therefore of their accufations I believe may be ...
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... ESSAY ' ON CRITICISM , of which hear first the most Ancient of criticks , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . A His precepts are false , or trivial , or both : his thoughts are crude , * and abortive , his expreffions abfurd , his numbers harsh , and ...
... ESSAY ' ON CRITICISM , of which hear first the most Ancient of criticks , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . A His precepts are false , or trivial , or both : his thoughts are crude , * and abortive , his expreffions abfurd , his numbers harsh , and ...
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... Essay on the Art of finking in reputation , where he fays thus : " In order to fink in reputa- tion , let him take it into his head to defcend into Homer ( let the " world wonder , as it will , how the devil he got there ) and pretend ...
... Essay on the Art of finking in reputation , where he fays thus : " In order to fink in reputa- tion , let him take it into his head to defcend into Homer ( let the " world wonder , as it will , how the devil he got there ) and pretend ...
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