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... Poet , wearied with the impertinence and flander of a multitude of mean fcriblers that attacked him , fuddenly breaks out with this spirited complaint of the ill - ufage he had fuftained . This piece was published in the year 1734 , in ...
... Poet , wearied with the impertinence and flander of a multitude of mean fcriblers that attacked him , fuddenly breaks out with this spirited complaint of the ill - ufage he had fuftained . This piece was published in the year 1734 , in ...
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... Poet of Rhodes , who pretended much to Greek . Schol . in Horat . 1. 1 . Dr. Bentley pretends , that this Pitholeon libelled Cæfar alfo . See notes on Hor . Sat. 10. 1. i . P. VER . 54. He'll write a Journal , ] Meaning the London ...
... Poet of Rhodes , who pretended much to Greek . Schol . in Horat . 1. 1 . Dr. Bentley pretends , that this Pitholeon libelled Cæfar alfo . See notes on Hor . Sat. 10. 1. i . P. VER . 54. He'll write a Journal , ] Meaning the London ...
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... Poet , would fet him to make English verfes . He was pretty difficult to please , and would often fend the boy back to new - turn them . When they were to his mind , he took great pleasure in them , and would say , Thefe are good rhymes ...
... Poet , would fet him to make English verfes . He was pretty difficult to please , and would often fend the boy back to new - turn them . When they were to his mind , he took great pleasure in them , and would say , Thefe are good rhymes ...
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... poet of eftab- lifhed reputation . From the many commendations which Walth , and Garth , and Grenville beflowed on bis Paftorals , it may fairly be con- cluded how much the public tafte has been improved , and with how many good ...
... poet of eftab- lifhed reputation . From the many commendations which Walth , and Garth , and Grenville beflowed on bis Paftorals , it may fairly be con- cluded how much the public tafte has been improved , and with how many good ...
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... Poet . Countenanced by fuch great examples , a French Critic afterwards undertook to prove that Ariftotle did not underfland Greek , nor Titus Livius , Latin . It has been fince difco- vered that Jofephus was ignorant of Hebrew : and ...
... Poet . Countenanced by fuch great examples , a French Critic afterwards undertook to prove that Ariftotle did not underfland Greek , nor Titus Livius , Latin . It has been fince difco- vered that Jofephus was ignorant of Hebrew : and ...
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