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... first feem to fancy that the world muft ap- prove whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . Methinks as on the one hand , no fingle man is born with a right of controuling ...
... first feem to fancy that the world muft ap- prove whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . Methinks as on the one hand , no fingle man is born with a right of controuling ...
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... first steps he makes in the world , and people will establish their opi- nion of us , from what we do at that season when we have least judgment to direct us . On the other hand , a good Poet no fooner com- municates his works with the ...
... first steps he makes in the world , and people will establish their opi- nion of us , from what we do at that season when we have least judgment to direct us . On the other hand , a good Poet no fooner com- municates his works with the ...
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... first , and too much judgment to be pleas'd with them at laft . But I have reafon to think they can have no reputation which will conti- nue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read ...
... first , and too much judgment to be pleas'd with them at laft . But I have reafon to think they can have no reputation which will conti- nue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read ...
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... proceffion heads , And throws a luftre o'er the pomp fhe leads , First gives the Palm she fir'd him to obtain , Crowns his gay brow , and fhows him how to reign . Thus Thus young Alcides , by old Chiron taught , Was ( xxxii )
... proceffion heads , And throws a luftre o'er the pomp fhe leads , First gives the Palm she fir'd him to obtain , Crowns his gay brow , and fhows him how to reign . Thus Thus young Alcides , by old Chiron taught , Was ( xxxii )
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... first Book of Statius his Thebais . Sapho to Phaon , from Ovid . The Fable of Dryope , from Ovid . Vertumnus and Pomona , from Ovid . VOL . IV . The DUNCIA D , an Heroic Poem , in three books , to Dr. Jonathan Swift . PASTORALS , WITH A ...
... first Book of Statius his Thebais . Sapho to Phaon , from Ovid . The Fable of Dryope , from Ovid . Vertumnus and Pomona , from Ovid . VOL . IV . The DUNCIA D , an Heroic Poem , in three books , to Dr. Jonathan Swift . PASTORALS , WITH A ...
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