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... Boileau ridicules and rallies vile writers with more feening plea- fantry and good - humour , we ought to recolle & that Boileau was the aggreffor , and had received no previous abufe , when be fell upon Cotin , De Pure , Quinault , St ...
... Boileau ridicules and rallies vile writers with more feening plea- fantry and good - humour , we ought to recolle & that Boileau was the aggreffor , and had received no previous abufe , when be fell upon Cotin , De Pure , Quinault , St ...
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... BOILEAU , Sat. ix . 89 . This is exquifitely pleasant , and expreffed with that purity and force both of thought and di & ion , that happy Horatian mixture of jeft and carneft that contribute to place Defpreaux at the head of modern ...
... BOILEAU , Sat. ix . 89 . This is exquifitely pleasant , and expreffed with that purity and force both of thought and di & ion , that happy Horatian mixture of jeft and carneft that contribute to place Defpreaux at the head of modern ...
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... Boileau employed eleven years in his fhort fatire of L'Equivoque . Patru was four years altering and correding the first paragraph of his tranflation of the oration for Archias . VER . 49. Pitholeon ] The name taken from a foolish Poet ...
... Boileau employed eleven years in his fhort fatire of L'Equivoque . Patru was four years altering and correding the first paragraph of his tranflation of the oration for Archias . VER . 49. Pitholeon ] The name taken from a foolish Poet ...
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... Boileau fays , Sat. ix . v . 221. I have nothing to do with Chapelain's honour , or candour , or civility , or complaifance ; but , if you hold him up as a model of good writing , and as the king of authors , " Ma bile alors s'échauffe ...
... Boileau fays , Sat. ix . v . 221. I have nothing to do with Chapelain's honour , or candour , or civility , or complaifance ; but , if you hold him up as a model of good writing , and as the king of authors , " Ma bile alors s'échauffe ...
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... Boileau , in his tenth epiftle , has done the fame in giving many amufing particulars of his father , family , and fortunes . VER . 118. Sir ! you have an Eye . ] It is remarkable , that , amongst There are , who to my perfon pay their ...
... Boileau , in his tenth epiftle , has done the fame in giving many amufing particulars of his father , family , and fortunes . VER . 118. Sir ! you have an Eye . ] It is remarkable , that , amongst There are , who to my perfon pay their ...
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