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Page 52
... Reader , which few of the Criticks befides Longinus have confidered . OUR general Tafte in England is for Epigram , Turns of Wit , and forced Conceits , which have no manner of Influence , either for the bettering or enlarging the Mind ...
... Reader , which few of the Criticks befides Longinus have confidered . OUR general Tafte in England is for Epigram , Turns of Wit , and forced Conceits , which have no manner of Influence , either for the bettering or enlarging the Mind ...
Page 59
... Reader a Poem or a Profpect , where he particular- ly diffuades him from knotty and fubtle Difquifitions , and advises him to purfue Studies that fill the Mind with fplendid and illuftrious Objects , as Hiftories , Fables , and ...
... Reader a Poem or a Profpect , where he particular- ly diffuades him from knotty and fubtle Difquifitions , and advises him to purfue Studies that fill the Mind with fplendid and illuftrious Objects , as Hiftories , Fables , and ...
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... Reader finds a Scene drawn in ftronger Colours , and painted more to the Life in his Imagination , by the Help of ... Readers , who are all acquainted with the fame Language , and know the Meaning of the Words they read , fhould ...
... Reader finds a Scene drawn in ftronger Colours , and painted more to the Life in his Imagination , by the Help of ... Readers , who are all acquainted with the fame Language , and know the Meaning of the Words they read , fhould ...
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