An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... learned man in retirement * is highly finished , as it flowed from the foul of our poet , who was here in his proper element , recommending integrity and science . He has no where difcovered more poetic enthusiasm , than where ...
... learned man in retirement * is highly finished , as it flowed from the foul of our poet , who was here in his proper element , recommending integrity and science . He has no where difcovered more poetic enthusiasm , than where ...
Page 80
... learned to write , by copying printed books , which he executed with great neatness and exactnefs . When he was eight years old , he was put under the direction of one Taverner , a priest , who taught him the rudiments of the latin and ...
... learned to write , by copying printed books , which he executed with great neatness and exactnefs . When he was eight years old , he was put under the direction of one Taverner , a priest , who taught him the rudiments of the latin and ...
Page 131
... learned critics were fo well received , and philosophers themselves difdained not to be of the number ; there could not fail to arise critics of an inferior order , who would fubdivide the feveral provinces of this empire ...
... learned critics were fo well received , and philosophers themselves difdained not to be of the number ; there could not fail to arise critics of an inferior order , who would fubdivide the feveral provinces of this empire ...
Page 183
... learned it from the Saracens , when he made a journey into Spain . Gerbert also undertook to make the first clock , the motion of which was regulated by a balance ; which method was made use of till the year 1650 , when they began to ...
... learned it from the Saracens , when he made a journey into Spain . Gerbert also undertook to make the first clock , the motion of which was regulated by a balance ; which method was made use of till the year 1650 , when they began to ...
Page 186
... learned men he could find , Petit had charged Bud¿us , and Cop the royal physician , to write to Erafmus , to engage him to settle in France : that Stephen Poncher , embaffador from the king at Bruffels , preffed 1 ! fed him ftill more ...
... learned men he could find , Petit had charged Bud¿us , and Cop the royal physician , to write to Erafmus , to engage him to settle in France : that Stephen Poncher , embaffador from the king at Bruffels , preffed 1 ! fed him ftill more ...
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