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... that the traces of fameness are in a manner lost ; and this is one of the excellencies for which that poet is admired , and which , tho ' seemingly devoid of art , requires so much that he has seldom been imitated with success .
... that the traces of fameness are in a manner lost ; and this is one of the excellencies for which that poet is admired , and which , tho ' seemingly devoid of art , requires so much that he has seldom been imitated with success .
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3 and concern begins to subside , and when we behold them cloathed in the rich spoils of those they had murdered , we give them up as worthless wretches , that deserve more of our contempt , than admiration . Had they passed on qoietly ...
3 and concern begins to subside , and when we behold them cloathed in the rich spoils of those they had murdered , we give them up as worthless wretches , that deserve more of our contempt , than admiration . Had they passed on qoietly ...
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Notwithstanding these absurdities , some few of which we fhall hereafter point out , his poem is so admired in several parts of Italy , that many of his canto's are publicly fung in that country , as those of Homer were in Greece ...
Notwithstanding these absurdities , some few of which we fhall hereafter point out , his poem is so admired in several parts of Italy , that many of his canto's are publicly fung in that country , as those of Homer were in Greece ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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