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Pagina 124
... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
Pagina 160
... remarks on ancient or modern writers are not always to be trusted . His parallel of the versification of Ovid with that of Claudian has been very justly censured by Sewel . His com- parison of the first line of Virgil with the first of ...
... remarks on ancient or modern writers are not always to be trusted . His parallel of the versification of Ovid with that of Claudian has been very justly censured by Sewel . His com- parison of the first line of Virgil with the first of ...
Pagina 326
... remarks upon it , with very little force and with no effect ; for the opinion of the public was already settled , and it was no longer at the mercy of criticism . About this time he published The Temple of Fame , which , as he tells ...
... remarks upon it , with very little force and with no effect ; for the opinion of the public was already settled , and it was no longer at the mercy of criticism . About this time he published The Temple of Fame , which , as he tells ...
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JOHN MILTON | 47 |
EARL OF ROCHESTER | 107 |
JOHN DRYDEN | 113 |
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