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... fatire makes pretence , And modern fcandal rolls with an'ient fense : Whilft on one fide we fee how Horace thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyift better ...
... fatire makes pretence , And modern fcandal rolls with an'ient fense : Whilft on one fide we fee how Horace thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyift better ...
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... fatire , in many parts of this Epiftle , have fuch an extraordinary energy and poignancy , that our Author's want of temper has been much cenfured ; and I know not whether it will be a fuffi- cient juftification to fay , that thefe ...
... fatire , in many parts of this Epiftle , have fuch an extraordinary energy and poignancy , that our Author's want of temper has been much cenfured ; and I know not whether it will be a fuffi- cient juftification to fay , that thefe ...
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... fatire is far more easy to be imitated than the oblique , indire & , delicate touches of Horace . The judgement of L. Gyraldus concerning Juvenal feems to be judicious and well - foun- ded : If you think my opinion worth regarding , I ...
... fatire is far more easy to be imitated than the oblique , indire & , delicate touches of Horace . The judgement of L. Gyraldus concerning Juvenal feems to be judicious and well - foun- ded : If you think my opinion worth regarding , I ...
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... 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 of Rhodes , who pretended much to Greek ...
... 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 of Rhodes , who pretended much to Greek ...
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... fatire of the firft book . And 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 ...
... fatire of the firft book . And 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 ...
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