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... words : In two large columns , on thy motly page , Where Roman wit is ftrip'd with English rage ; Where ribaldry to fatire makes pretence , And modern fcandal rolls with an'ient fense : Whilft on one fide we fee how Horace thought , And ...
... words : In two large columns , on thy motly page , Where Roman wit is ftrip'd with English rage ; Where ribaldry to fatire makes pretence , And modern fcandal rolls with an'ient fense : Whilft on one fide we fee how Horace thought , And ...
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... word perks has particular force and emphafis . Sir Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at . Boileau wrote his ninth Satire firft in profe ; of which there was a copy in the late French King's Library . VIR . 72. Queen ...
... word perks has particular force and emphafis . Sir Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at . Boileau wrote his ninth Satire firft in profe ; of which there was a copy in the late French King's Library . VIR . 72. Queen ...
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... word ( as crack ) will vulgarize a poetical idea . " VER . 90. He pins the flight , ] Berkley , who had a brilliant fancy , has employed an image of this fort on a more ferious fubje & in his Destroy his fib , or sophistry , in vain ...
... word ( as crack ) will vulgarize a poetical idea . " VER . 90. He pins the flight , ] Berkley , who had a brilliant fancy , has employed an image of this fort on a more ferious fubje & in his Destroy his fib , or sophistry , in vain ...
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... words feem added merely for the verfe , and are what the French call a cheville , VER . 135. But why then publish ? ] To the three firft names that encouraged his carlieft writings , he has added other friends , whose acquaintance with ...
... words feem added merely for the verfe , and are what the French call a cheville , VER . 135. But why then publish ? ] To the three firft names that encouraged his carlieft writings , he has added other friends , whose acquaintance with ...
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... word and epithet here ufed is exa & ly chara & eriftical and peculiarly appropriated , with much art , to the temper and manner of each of the perfons here mentioned ; the elegance of Lanfdown , the open free benevolence and candour of ...
... word and epithet here ufed is exa & ly chara & eriftical and peculiarly appropriated , with much art , to the temper and manner of each of the perfons here mentioned ; the elegance of Lanfdown , the open free benevolence and candour of ...
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