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Again , by the word critic have been meant the restorers of ancient learning from the worms , and graves , and dust of manuscripts . Now , the races of these two have been for some ages utterly extinct ; and besides , to discourse any ...
Again , by the word critic have been meant the restorers of ancient learning from the worms , and graves , and dust of manuscripts . Now , the races of these two have been for some ages utterly extinct ; and besides , to discourse any ...
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These have with unwearied pains made many useful searches into the weak sides of the ancients , and given us a comprehensive list of them . ° Besides , they have proved • See Wotbeyond contradiction , that the very ton , Of Ancient and ...
These have with unwearied pains made many useful searches into the weak sides of the ancients , and given us a comprehensive list of them . ° Besides , they have proved • See Wotbeyond contradiction , that the very ton , Of Ancient and ...
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Having thus failed in his design , the disappointed champion bore a cruel rancour to the Ancients , which he resolved ... Here a solitary Ancient , squeezed up among a whole shelf of Moderns , offered fairly to dispute the case , and to ...
Having thus failed in his design , the disappointed champion bore a cruel rancour to the Ancients , which he resolved ... Here a solitary Ancient , squeezed up among a whole shelf of Moderns , offered fairly to dispute the case , and to ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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