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... NOTES . VER . 38. An aching head ; ] Alluding to the disorder he was then fo conftantly afflicted with . W. VER . 40. Keep your piece nine years . ] Boileau employed eleven years in his fhort fatire of L'Equivoque . Patru was four years ...
... NOTES . VER . 38. An aching head ; ] Alluding to the disorder he was then fo conftantly afflicted with . W. VER . 40. Keep your piece nine years . ] Boileau employed eleven years in his fhort fatire of L'Equivoque . Patru was four years ...
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... NOTES . VER . 115. There are , who to my perfon ] The smalleft perfonal particularities , notwithstanding fome faftidious writers may think them trifling , are interefting in eminent men . Hence is Mon- taigne fo pleafing ; hence is ...
... NOTES . VER . 115. There are , who to my perfon ] The smalleft perfonal particularities , notwithstanding fome faftidious writers may think them trifling , are interefting in eminent men . Hence is Mon- taigne fo pleafing ; hence is ...
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... NOTES . 130 he was much negle & ed , and suffered to go to the comedy with the greater boys , he turned the tranfa ... Note , were communicated by Mr. Spence to Dr. Warburton . The account of this matter , as it was delivered to me by Mr ...
... NOTES . 130 he was much negle & ed , and suffered to go to the comedy with the greater boys , he turned the tranfa ... Note , were communicated by Mr. Spence to Dr. Warburton . The account of this matter , as it was delivered to me by Mr ...
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... NOTES . VER . 131. Not Wife , ] These two words feem added merely for the verfe , and are what the French call a cheville , VER . 135. But why then publish ? ] To the three firft names that encouraged his carlieft writings , he has ...
... NOTES . VER . 131. Not Wife , ] These two words feem added merely for the verfe , and are what the French call a cheville , VER . 135. But why then publish ? ] To the three firft names that encouraged his carlieft writings , he has ...
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... NOTES . ( like children's delighting in a prifm for the fake of its gaudy colours which , when frugally managed and artfully difpofed , might be made to unfold and illuftrate the nobleft obje & s in nature . W. P. VER . 150. A painted ...
... NOTES . ( like children's delighting in a prifm for the fake of its gaudy colours which , when frugally managed and artfully difpofed , might be made to unfold and illuftrate the nobleft obje & s in nature . W. P. VER . 150. A painted ...
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