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Page 7
... write , copied Juvenal , whofe violent , downright , declamatory fpecies of fatire is far more easy to be imitated than the oblique , indire & , delicate touches of Horace . The judgement of L. Gyraldus concerning Juvenal feems to be ...
... write , copied Juvenal , whofe violent , downright , declamatory fpecies of fatire is far more easy to be imitated than the oblique , indire & , delicate touches of Horace . The judgement of L. Gyraldus concerning Juvenal feems to be ...
Page 9
... write , if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will not lie : To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , 35 And to be grave , exceeds all Pow'r of face . I ...
... write , if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will not lie : To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , 35 And to be grave , exceeds all Pow'r of face . I ...
Page 10
... write a Journal , or he'll turn Divine . " Blefs me ! a packet . " ' Tis a stranger fues , 55 " A Virgin Tragedy , an Orphan Mufe . " If I diflike it , Furies , death and rage ! If I approve , " Commend it to the Stage . " There ( thank ...
... write a Journal , or he'll turn Divine . " Blefs me ! a packet . " ' Tis a stranger fues , 55 " A Virgin Tragedy , an Orphan Mufe . " If I diflike it , Furies , death and rage ! If I approve , " Commend it to the Stage . " There ( thank ...
Page 13
... write , and I am twice as tall ; NOTES : Alciphron : " To tax or frike at a divine do & rine , on account of things foreign and adventitious , the fpeculations and difputes of curious men , is , in my mind , an abfurdity of the fame ...
... write , and I am twice as tall ; NOTES : Alciphron : " To tax or frike at a divine do & rine , on account of things foreign and adventitious , the fpeculations and difputes of curious men , is , in my mind , an abfurdity of the fame ...
Page 14
... writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor . " What paffages in Horace are more agreea ble than when he tells us he was fat and fleek , " præcanum , folibus aptum , " prone to anger ...
... writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor . " What paffages in Horace are more agreea ble than when he tells us he was fat and fleek , " præcanum , folibus aptum , " prone to anger ...
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