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... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the po- pular stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundeft ...
... most difficult work of invention ; and if we were minutely to examine the po- pular stories of every nation , we should be amazed to find how few circumstances have • Machiavel , who poffeffed the livelieft wit with the pro- foundeft ...
Pagina 4
... most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of ...
... most ap- plauded plays , both in tragedy and comedy , may witness , which have generally been taken from the novels of the Italians and Spaniards . THE ftory of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of ...
Pagina 8
... most numerous and sweet , the moft mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself says he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a ...
... most numerous and sweet , the moft mellow and generous , of any our language has yet produced . His digreffions and ramblings , which he himself says he learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a ...
Pagina 19
Joseph Warton. and I place them last , as I think them the most lofty of any part of Dryden's works . Whilft lift'ning ... most un- rivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 19 and I ...
Joseph Warton. and I place them last , as I think them the most lofty of any part of Dryden's works . Whilft lift'ning ... most un- rivalled C 2 rivalled of his compofitions . By that strange fatality which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 19 and I ...
Pagina 31
... most melo- dious flow of versification , and a certain pleafing melancholy in his fentiments , the conftant companion of an elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compofitions . To imitate Spenser on a subject that ...
... most melo- dious flow of versification , and a certain pleafing melancholy in his fentiments , the conftant companion of an elegant tafte , that cafts a delicacy and grace over all his compofitions . To imitate Spenser on a subject that ...
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