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such persons as invented or drew up rules for themselves and the world , by observing which , a careful reader might be able to pronounce upon the productions of the learned , form his taste to a true relish of the sublime and the ...
such persons as invented or drew up rules for themselves and the world , by observing which , a careful reader might be able to pronounce upon the productions of the learned , form his taste to a true relish of the sublime and the ...
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He hath been so bold as to tax the 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 · Vide exrelations Ctesias ...
He hath been so bold as to tax the 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 · Vide exrelations Ctesias ...
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The avoiding of which penalty has doubtless given the first birth to the nation of critics , and withal , an occasion for their secret detractors to report , that a true critic is a sort of mechanic , set up with a stock and tools for ...
The avoiding of which penalty has doubtless given the first birth to the nation of critics , and withal , an occasion for their secret detractors to report , that a true critic is a sort of mechanic , set up with a stock and tools for ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
Copyright | |
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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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