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Page 34
... fpeak of him with particular fondness and attachment . He wrote with neatness and terfenefs , æquali quâdam mediocritate , but certainly without any elevation ; frequently without any fpirit . Trivia appears to be the best of his poems ...
... fpeak of him with particular fondness and attachment . He wrote with neatness and terfenefs , æquali quâdam mediocritate , but certainly without any elevation ; frequently without any fpirit . Trivia appears to be the best of his poems ...
Page 138
... fpeak incorrectly of what are called the writers of the Auguftan age . Terence , Lucretius , Catullus , Tully , J. Cæfar , and Salluft , wrote before the time of Auguftus ; and Livy , Virgil , Horace , Tibullus , and Propertius , were ...
... fpeak incorrectly of what are called the writers of the Auguftan age . Terence , Lucretius , Catullus , Tully , J. Cæfar , and Salluft , wrote before the time of Auguftus ; and Livy , Virgil , Horace , Tibullus , and Propertius , were ...
Page 155
... fpeak , amongft his friends , of the blind partiality of the public , in the latter , with the contempt it deferved . For however he might fometimes miftake his own force , he was never the dupe of the public judgmeut : of which , a ...
... fpeak , amongft his friends , of the blind partiality of the public , in the latter , with the contempt it deferved . For however he might fometimes miftake his own force , he was never the dupe of the public judgmeut : of which , a ...
Page 158
... that Dr. Johnfou hould fpeak fo contemptibly , as he has done more than once , of the profeffion and abilities of his friend and pupil * Mr. Garrick . 1 1 Or well - mouth'd Booth with emphafis proclaims , 158 Book II . IMITATIONS.
... that Dr. Johnfou hould fpeak fo contemptibly , as he has done more than once , of the profeffion and abilities of his friend and pupil * Mr. Garrick . 1 1 Or well - mouth'd Booth with emphafis proclaims , 158 Book II . IMITATIONS.
Page 162
... fpeak truth . In these voluminous extravagancies , Love and Honour fupplied the place of Life and Manners . But the over - refinement of Platonic fentiments always finks into the dregs of the gentle paffion . Thus in attempting a more ...
... fpeak truth . In these voluminous extravagancies , Love and Honour fupplied the place of Life and Manners . But the over - refinement of Platonic fentiments always finks into the dregs of the gentle paffion . Thus in attempting a more ...
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