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... critics , ancient , and modern , perhaps no words can defcribe him fo exa & ly and juftly as the following of Tully , spoken on another subje & ( Lib . 1. de Oratore ) : " Accedit lepos quidam , facetiæque , et eruditio libero digna ...
... critics , ancient , and modern , perhaps no words can defcribe him fo exa & ly and juftly as the following of Tully , spoken on another subje & ( Lib . 1. de Oratore ) : " Accedit lepos quidam , facetiæque , et eruditio libero digna ...
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... CRITIC . It was a moft peculiar Talent in Martinus , to con- vert every Trifle into a ferious thing , either in the ... Critics and Grammarians ; and , in the Life of Erafmus , fays , " I remember to have met with a paffage in a certain ...
... CRITIC . It was a moft peculiar Talent in Martinus , to con- vert every Trifle into a ferious thing , either in the ... Critics and Grammarians ; and , in the Life of Erafmus , fays , " I remember to have met with a paffage in a certain ...
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... Critic , the amendment and alteration of all the rest would cafily follow ; whereby a new , a vaft , nay boundless ... critics , for fquabbling , as he expreffed it , about an old play - boot . Whifton mentions this in his Memoirs of ...
... Critic , the amendment and alteration of all the rest would cafily follow ; whereby a new , a vaft , nay boundless ... critics , for fquabbling , as he expreffed it , about an old play - boot . Whifton mentions this in his Memoirs of ...
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... Critics , and Orators have com- piled and digested the Art of ancient Poefy , there hath not rifen among us one ... critic , whofe knowledge of Greek has been much queftioned . Relating a ftory of Euphranor the painter , he says ...
... Critics , and Orators have com- piled and digested the Art of ancient Poefy , there hath not rifen among us one ... critic , whofe knowledge of Greek has been much queftioned . Relating a ftory of Euphranor the painter , he says ...
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... Critics ; fince their Laws ( though they might be good ) have ever been flackly executed , and their Precepts ( however ftrict ) obeyed only by fits , and by a very fmall number . At the fame time I intend to do juftice upon our ...
... Critics ; fince their Laws ( though they might be good ) have ever been flackly executed , and their Precepts ( however ftrict ) obeyed only by fits , and by a very fmall number . At the fame time I intend to do juftice upon our ...
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