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... thofe are difpleas'd at it who are not able to follow it : And ' tis to be fear'd that efteem will feldom do any man fo much good , as ill - will does him harm . Then there is a third class of people who make the largest part of mankind ...
... thofe are difpleas'd at it who are not able to follow it : And ' tis to be fear'd that efteem will feldom do any man fo much good , as ill - will does him harm . Then there is a third class of people who make the largest part of mankind ...
Page 11
... thofe who have been moft indebted to them . For to fay truth , whatever is very good fenfe , muft have been common fenfe in all times ; and what we call Learning , is but the knowlegde of the fenfe of our predeceffors . Therefore they ...
... thofe who have been moft indebted to them . For to fay truth , whatever is very good fenfe , muft have been common fenfe in all times ; and what we call Learning , is but the knowlegde of the fenfe of our predeceffors . Therefore they ...
Page 12
... thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake of a whole Poem , and vice verfa a whole Poem for the fake of fome paricular lines . I believe no one qualification is fo likely to make a good writer , as the ...
... thofe Authors , who forgive themselves fome particular lines for the fake of a whole Poem , and vice verfa a whole Poem for the fake of fome paricular lines . I believe no one qualification is fo likely to make a good writer , as the ...
Page xviii
... thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most ...
... thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most ...
Page xix
... thofe flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true measure of the fhepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with ...
... thofe flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true measure of the fhepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yet muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with ...
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