The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... true relish of the sublime and the admirable , and di- vide every beauty of matter or of style from the corruption ... TRUE CRITIC , whose original is the most ancient of all . Every true critic is a hero born , descending in a direct ...
... true relish of the sublime and the admirable , and di- vide every beauty of matter or of style from the corruption ... TRUE CRITIC , whose original is the most ancient of all . Every true critic is a hero born , descending in a direct ...
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... true critics of ignorance and malice ; telling us openly , for I think nothing can be plainer , that in the western part of Libya , there were ASSES with HORNS : upon which relations Ctesias ° 4 yet refines , men- tioning the very same ...
... true critics of ignorance and malice ; telling us openly , for I think nothing can be plainer , that in the western part of Libya , there were ASSES with HORNS : upon which relations Ctesias ° 4 yet refines , men- tioning the very same ...
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... true beggar , it will cost the richest candidate every groat he is worth ; so , before one can com- mence a true critic , it will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind ; which , perhaps , for a less pur- chase , would be thought ...
... true beggar , it will cost the richest candidate every groat he is worth ; so , before one can com- mence a true critic , it will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind ; which , perhaps , for a less pur- chase , would be thought ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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