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... Nor only juftice vainly we demand , But even benefits can't rein thy hand : To this or that alike in vain we truft , Nor find thee lefs ungrateful than unjuft . " 3 1 EPISTLE то DR . ARBUTHNOT , BEING THE PROLOGUE TO [ 4 ]
... Nor only juftice vainly we demand , But even benefits can't rein thy hand : To this or that alike in vain we truft , Nor find thee lefs ungrateful than unjuft . " 3 1 EPISTLE то DR . ARBUTHNOT , BEING THE PROLOGUE TO [ 4 ]
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... lefs favourable to himfeif , as Mr. Colomies tells the flory . This Critic , on a time , meeting two of his brethren , Meff . Gaulman and Mauffac , in the Royal Library at Paris , Gaulman , in a virtuous con- fcioufnefs of their ...
... lefs favourable to himfeif , as Mr. Colomies tells the flory . This Critic , on a time , meeting two of his brethren , Meff . Gaulman and Mauffac , in the Royal Library at Paris , Gaulman , in a virtuous con- fcioufnefs of their ...
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... lefs fcholar than he was well equal to ) in order to refute the far fuperior labours of Dacier and others , in fixing the dates of each particular piece . The whole of the difpute comes to this : The time of writing each particular ...
... lefs fcholar than he was well equal to ) in order to refute the far fuperior labours of Dacier and others , in fixing the dates of each particular piece . The whole of the difpute comes to this : The time of writing each particular ...
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... lefs tolerable , as more perfonal . However Addifon's focial talents , in the entertainment and enjoyment of his intimate friends , charmed both Pope and Swift alike ; as a quality far fuperior to any thing that was to be found in any ...
... lefs tolerable , as more perfonal . However Addifon's focial talents , in the entertainment and enjoyment of his intimate friends , charmed both Pope and Swift alike ; as a quality far fuperior to any thing that was to be found in any ...
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... lefs in commendation of bis literary , than of his moral character , And his fuperior excellence in poetry is owing to it . He foon difcovered in what his force lay ; and he made the best of that advantage , by a fedulous cultivation of ...
... lefs in commendation of bis literary , than of his moral character , And his fuperior excellence in poetry is owing to it . He foon difcovered in what his force lay ; and he made the best of that advantage , by a fedulous cultivation of ...
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