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Pagina 5
... lines of four feet , or the French numbers of Fontaine * . Fontaine is , in truth , the capital and unrivalled writer of comic tales . He generally took his subjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariofto ; but adorned them with fo many ...
... lines of four feet , or the French numbers of Fontaine * . Fontaine is , in truth , the capital and unrivalled writer of comic tales . He generally took his subjects from Boccace , Poggius † , and Ariofto ; but adorned them with fo many ...
Pagina 10
... lines of POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and eafy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer ...
... lines of POPE , in the piece before us , are spirited and eafy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer ...
Pagina 22
... lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit cum Statius urbem , * Writers of this flamp are always on the ftretch . They difdain the natural . They are ...
... lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit cum Statius urbem , * Writers of this flamp are always on the ftretch . They difdain the natural . They are ...
Pagina 35
... lines ; By that way's fide there fe infernal Pain , And faft befide him fat tumultuous Strife ; The one , in hand an iron whip did strain , The other brandifhed a bloody knife , And both did guash their teeth , and both did threater ...
... lines ; By that way's fide there fe infernal Pain , And faft befide him fat tumultuous Strife ; The one , in hand an iron whip did strain , The other brandifhed a bloody knife , And both did guash their teeth , and both did threater ...
Pagina 38
... lines contain three allusions , delicate indeed , but fome may deem them to be too far - fetched , too much crouded , and not obvious to the Lady to whom they were addreffed , on her finging a song of his compofing . Chloris , yourself ...
... lines contain three allusions , delicate indeed , but fome may deem them to be too far - fetched , too much crouded , and not obvious to the Lady to whom they were addreffed , on her finging a song of his compofing . Chloris , yourself ...
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