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Page 4
... English tongue ball remain fuch as it was in the reigns of Queen ANNE and King GEORGE ) it seem❜d but humanity to beftow a word or two upon each , just to tell what he was , what be writ , when he liv'd , or when he dÿ'd . If a word or ...
... English tongue ball remain fuch as it was in the reigns of Queen ANNE and King GEORGE ) it seem❜d but humanity to beftow a word or two upon each , just to tell what he was , what be writ , when he liv'd , or when he dÿ'd . If a word or ...
Page 16
... English Poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of fortune or fuccefs : He has liv'd with the great without Flattery , been a friend to Men in Power without Penfions , from whom as he ask'd , fo he receiv'd no favour but what ...
... English Poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of fortune or fuccefs : He has liv'd with the great without Flattery , been a friend to Men in Power without Penfions , from whom as he ask'd , fo he receiv'd no favour but what ...
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... English Author , has , after the fame 66 manner , exemplify'd several of his Pre- ( 6 cepts , in the very precepts themselves . ' He then produces fome inftances of a parti cular kind of beauty in the Numbers , and concludes with faying ...
... English Author , has , after the fame 66 manner , exemplify'd several of his Pre- ( 6 cepts , in the very precepts themselves . ' He then produces fome inftances of a parti cular kind of beauty in the Numbers , and concludes with faying ...
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... English 66 tongue we have scarce any thing truly and " naturally written upon Love ( a ) . alfo , in taxing Sir Richard Blackmore for his Heterodox opinions of Homer , challengeth him to answer what Mr. Pope hath faid in his preface to ...
... English 66 tongue we have scarce any thing truly and " naturally written upon Love ( a ) . alfo , in taxing Sir Richard Blackmore for his Heterodox opinions of Homer , challengeth him to answer what Mr. Pope hath faid in his preface to ...
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... English , and Vernacular . One E therefore in this cafe is right , and two E's wrong ; yet upon the whole I fhall follow the Manufcript , and print it without any E at all , mov'd thereto by Authority , at all times with Criticks equal ...
... English , and Vernacular . One E therefore in this cafe is right , and two E's wrong ; yet upon the whole I fhall follow the Manufcript , and print it without any E at all , mov'd thereto by Authority , at all times with Criticks equal ...
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