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Page 5
... observation , used to mention many pleafing inftances . His wife was living at Ecclefhall , 1783 , ninety years old , and knew many anecdotes of Pope . VER . 1. Shut , shut the door , ] This abrupt exordium is animated and dramatic ...
... observation , used to mention many pleafing inftances . His wife was living at Ecclefhall , 1783 , ninety years old , and knew many anecdotes of Pope . VER . 1. Shut , shut the door , ] This abrupt exordium is animated and dramatic ...
Page 103
... Observations on the Life of Tully , in which , perhaps , a more difpaffionate and impartial character of Tully is exbibited than in the panegyrical volumes of Middleton . VER . 31. Ariftippus , or St. Paul , ] There is an impropriety ...
... Observations on the Life of Tully , in which , perhaps , a more difpaffionate and impartial character of Tully is exbibited than in the panegyrical volumes of Middleton . VER . 31. Ariftippus , or St. Paul , ] There is an impropriety ...
Page 133
... observe the philanthropy of that claffical Writer ; I may add , the fuperior purity of his diation , and his wit . " HARRIS'S Philological Enquiries , page 538 . f THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE ; K 3 EP . VI . 133 OF ...
... observe the philanthropy of that claffical Writer ; I may add , the fuperior purity of his diation , and his wit . " HARRIS'S Philological Enquiries , page 538 . f THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE ; K 3 EP . VI . 133 OF ...
Page 205
... Observe his shape how clean ! his locks how curl'd ! " My only fon , I'd have him fee the world : His French is pure , his voice too - you his voice too - you fhall hear . Sir , he's your flave , for twenty pound a year . Mere wax as ...
... Observe his shape how clean ! his locks how curl'd ! " My only fon , I'd have him fee the world : His French is pure , his voice too - you his voice too - you fhall hear . Sir , he's your flave , for twenty pound a year . Mere wax as ...
Page 224
... observe here , that our two great poetical Maffers never thought that the interpofition of an hyphen , without juft grounds and reafons , made a compound - epithet . On the contrary , it was their A's opinion , ( and to this opinion ...
... observe here , that our two great poetical Maffers never thought that the interpofition of an hyphen , without juft grounds and reafons , made a compound - epithet . On the contrary , it was their A's opinion , ( and to this opinion ...
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