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... feveral occafions offered . I had no thoughts of publishing it , till it pleafed fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton ...
... feveral occafions offered . I had no thoughts of publishing it , till it pleafed fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton ...
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... feveral graces of Maffiniff , Xenophon , and Plato , be might then be enabled to give the public fome faint and imperfe & resemblance of his Perion . Nor was Salmafius's judginent of his own parts lefs favourable to himfeif , as Mr ...
... feveral graces of Maffiniff , Xenophon , and Plato , be might then be enabled to give the public fome faint and imperfe & resemblance of his Perion . Nor was Salmafius's judginent of his own parts lefs favourable to himfeif , as Mr ...
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... feveral hands . P. VER . 190. And own'd that nine fuch Poets ] Before this piece was published , Dr. Young had addreffed two Epiftles to our Author , ia the year 1730 , concerning the Authors of the age ; in which are many paffages that ...
... feveral hands . P. VER . 190. And own'd that nine fuch Poets ] Before this piece was published , Dr. Young had addreffed two Epiftles to our Author , ia the year 1730 , concerning the Authors of the age ; in which are many paffages that ...
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... feveral faults in tranflation , language , and numbers , under their proper heads . But the growing splendor of his own works fo eclipsed the faint efforts of this oppofition , that he trufled to its own weakness and malignity for the ...
... feveral faults in tranflation , language , and numbers , under their proper heads . But the growing splendor of his own works fo eclipsed the faint efforts of this oppofition , that he trufled to its own weakness and malignity for the ...
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... feveral perfons of Quality . P. VER . 248. Help'd to starve . Alluding to the fubfcription that was made for his funeral . Garth ( poke an oration over him . His necef ities obliged him to produce ( befides many other poetical pieces ) ...
... feveral perfons of Quality . P. VER . 248. Help'd to starve . Alluding to the fubfcription that was made for his funeral . Garth ( poke an oration over him . His necef ities obliged him to produce ( befides many other poetical pieces ) ...
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