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... worfe ? NOTES . Eleonora from the Alceftes of Euripides . Thomson was well acquaint ed with the Greek Tragedies , on which I heard him talk learnedly , when I was once introduced to him by my friend Mr. W. Collins . VER . 23. Arthur ...
... worfe ? NOTES . Eleonora from the Alceftes of Euripides . Thomson was well acquaint ed with the Greek Tragedies , on which I heard him talk learnedly , when I was once introduced to him by my friend Mr. W. Collins . VER . 23. Arthur ...
Page 14
... worfe when they repent . One dedicates in high heroic profe , And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grubftreet will my fame defend , And , more abufive , calls himself my friend . This prints my Letters , that expects a ...
... worfe when they repent . One dedicates in high heroic profe , And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grubftreet will my fame defend , And , more abufive , calls himself my friend . This prints my Letters , that expects a ...
Page 162
... worfe evil than a corruption of Tafte . At length this great people ( to whom , it must be owned , every branch of Science has been infinitely obliged ) hit upon the true fecret by which alone a deviation from fad and reality , in the ...
... worfe evil than a corruption of Tafte . At length this great people ( to whom , it must be owned , every branch of Science has been infinitely obliged ) hit upon the true fecret by which alone a deviation from fad and reality , in the ...
Page 173
... worfe Critic . His verfes are heavy , and his judgment of men and books fuperficial . But , in the pleasantry of comic adventures , and , in the dignity of moral allegories , he is inimitable . Nature having joined in him , as fhe had ...
... worfe Critic . His verfes are heavy , and his judgment of men and books fuperficial . But , in the pleasantry of comic adventures , and , in the dignity of moral allegories , he is inimitable . Nature having joined in him , as fhe had ...
Page 250
... Worfe than imbrothel'd flrumpets proflitute . Now like an owl - like watchman he muft walk , His hand ftill at a bill ; now he must talk Idly , like prifoners , which whole months will fwear , That only furetyfhip hath brought them ...
... Worfe than imbrothel'd flrumpets proflitute . Now like an owl - like watchman he muft walk , His hand ftill at a bill ; now he must talk Idly , like prifoners , which whole months will fwear , That only furetyfhip hath brought them ...
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