The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.]., Volume 4J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... lose my Patience , and I own it too , When Works are cenfur'd , not as Bad , but New . POPE .. HERE is nothing which more denotes a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and De- traction . This Paffion reigns more among bad T Poets ...
... lose my Patience , and I own it too , When Works are cenfur'd , not as Bad , but New . POPE .. HERE is nothing which more denotes a great Mind , than the Abhorrence of Envy and De- traction . This Paffion reigns more among bad T Poets ...
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... lose their Luftre when they are drawn at large , and set to show by his own Hand ; and as the World is more apt to find fault than to commend , the Boaft will pro- bably be censured when the great Action that occasioned it is forgotten ...
... lose their Luftre when they are drawn at large , and set to show by his own Hand ; and as the World is more apt to find fault than to commend , the Boaft will pro- bably be censured when the great Action that occasioned it is forgotten ...
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... lose himself in Confufion and Obscurity . I might further obferve that there is not a Greek or Latin Critick , who has not shewn , even in the Stile of his Criticisms , that he was a Master of all the Elegance and Delicacy of his na ...
... lose himself in Confufion and Obscurity . I might further obferve that there is not a Greek or Latin Critick , who has not shewn , even in the Stile of his Criticisms , that he was a Master of all the Elegance and Delicacy of his na ...
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