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... poffeffed not those very high poetical talents , for which the world , though fufficiently inclined to discover and magnify his defects , had allowed him credit . You confider him as the poet of reason , and intimate that " he stooped ...
... poffeffed not those very high poetical talents , for which the world , though fufficiently inclined to discover and magnify his defects , had allowed him credit . You confider him as the poet of reason , and intimate that " he stooped ...
Page 136
... poffeffed of wonderful influence and ability , but disposed to attempt , and likely to accomplish , the purest and nobleft purposes of policy and religion ; yet often thwarted and embarraffed in his best designs , not only by the power ...
... poffeffed of wonderful influence and ability , but disposed to attempt , and likely to accomplish , the purest and nobleft purposes of policy and religion ; yet often thwarted and embarraffed in his best designs , not only by the power ...
Page 272
... poffeffed not the fublimity and the refinement of Milton or Taffo . In his general ideas of poetry he re- fembled them both ; and in his mode of expreffing him- self , in the preface to his Angelcida , he reminds me very ftrongly of ...
... poffeffed not the fublimity and the refinement of Milton or Taffo . In his general ideas of poetry he re- fembled them both ; and in his mode of expreffing him- self , in the preface to his Angelcida , he reminds me very ftrongly of ...
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