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... - nature , for putting the Laws in Execution against a Thief or Im- poftor The fame will hold in the Repub- lick of Letters , if the Criticks and Judges will will let every Ignorant Pretender to Scrib- ling , pafs [ 18 ]
... - nature , for putting the Laws in Execution against a Thief or Im- poftor The fame will hold in the Repub- lick of Letters , if the Criticks and Judges will will let every Ignorant Pretender to Scrib- ling , pafs [ 18 ]
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... cri- ticks and commentators are wont to infift upon fuch , and how material they seem to themselves if to none other . Forgive me therefore gentle reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tediou's allow me to ...
... cri- ticks and commentators are wont to infift upon fuch , and how material they seem to themselves if to none other . Forgive me therefore gentle reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tediou's allow me to ...
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... criticks , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are falfe , or trivial , or " both his thoughts are crude , and abor- ❝tive , his expreffions abfurd , his numbers harth , and unmufical , without cadence , or variety , his rhymes trivial ...
... criticks , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are falfe , or trivial , or " both his thoughts are crude , and abor- ❝tive , his expreffions abfurd , his numbers harth , and unmufical , without cadence , or variety , his rhymes trivial ...
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... cri- " ticks ; I fhould be very glad to have the " benefit of the difcovery . " ( b ) . He is followed ( as in fame , fo in judg ment ) by the modeft and fimple - minded Mr. LEONARD WELSTED ; Who , out of great refpect to our poet not ...
... cri- " ticks ; I fhould be very glad to have the " benefit of the difcovery . " ( b ) . He is followed ( as in fame , fo in judg ment ) by the modeft and fimple - minded Mr. LEONARD WELSTED ; Who , out of great refpect to our poet not ...
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... criticks . A Perfon must be fix'd upon to fupport this action , who ( to agree with the said de- fign ) must be fuch an one as is capable of being all three . This phantom in the poet's mind , must have a name : He feeks for one who ...
... criticks . A Perfon must be fix'd upon to fupport this action , who ( to agree with the said de- fign ) must be fuch an one as is capable of being all three . This phantom in the poet's mind , must have a name : He feeks for one who ...
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