A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of Imitation |
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... languages to be inventors ; can you fuppofe , from what you know of the fafhion of that age , that their fancies would not be sprinkled , and their wits refreshed by the effences of the Italian poetry ? I scarcely need fay a word of our ...
... languages to be inventors ; can you fuppofe , from what you know of the fafhion of that age , that their fancies would not be sprinkled , and their wits refreshed by the effences of the Italian poetry ? I scarcely need fay a word of our ...
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... language , want but little evi- dence to convince us that his great genius did not dif- dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man has fo copiously ...
... language , want but little evi- dence to convince us that his great genius did not dif- dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man has fo copiously ...
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... language which Dr. HENRY MORE would have us'd if he had known to exprefs him- felf fo foberly . 3. Having faid fo much of Plato ; whom the Ita- lian writers have help'd to make known to us , let me just observe one thing , to our ...
... language which Dr. HENRY MORE would have us'd if he had known to exprefs him- felf fo foberly . 3. Having faid fo much of Plato ; whom the Ita- lian writers have help'd to make known to us , let me just observe one thing , to our ...
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... language and theology of Paganism . It is true indeed this Species of Imitation is not that which is , properly , the subject of this Letter . The moft original writer is allowed to furnish him- felf with poetical ideas from all ...
... language and theology of Paganism . It is true indeed this Species of Imitation is not that which is , properly , the subject of this Letter . The moft original writer is allowed to furnish him- felf with poetical ideas from all ...
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... On the other hand , when a man of the world took it into his head , the other day , in a moping fit , to talk Sentences , every body concluded that this was not the the language of the writer or his fituation , but OF IMITATION . 27.
... On the other hand , when a man of the world took it into his head , the other day , in a moping fit , to talk Sentences , every body concluded that this was not the the language of the writer or his fituation , but OF IMITATION . 27.
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