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Page 5
... taste of the past age against the cor- ruption of his own ; and , more for- tunate than Greece , she could still hold up to posterity a man with whom none is to be compared , Tacitus , who , alone equalling in height those who had gone ...
... taste of the past age against the cor- ruption of his own ; and , more for- tunate than Greece , she could still hold up to posterity a man with whom none is to be compared , Tacitus , who , alone equalling in height those who had gone ...
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... taste and elegance of antique latinity ; and it was only just , that Italy should become the seat of this happy revolu- tion . It spread itself through every department , thanks to the beneficent influence of the Medici , who , all ...
... taste and elegance of antique latinity ; and it was only just , that Italy should become the seat of this happy revolu- tion . It spread itself through every department , thanks to the beneficent influence of the Medici , who , all ...
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... taste , nevertheless , had con- siderable difficulties to surmount . Our progress was retarded by that spirit of imitation which is necessary to the resuscitation of the arts , but which has its inconveniences as well as advantages ...
... taste , nevertheless , had con- siderable difficulties to surmount . Our progress was retarded by that spirit of imitation which is necessary to the resuscitation of the arts , but which has its inconveniences as well as advantages ...
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... taste ; as there is no model for it in all Nature's works , even where she is most fanciful - on the course of Newmarket or in the hundreds of Drury . Bisset might be more happy in his drunken scene , were he to study the graces ...
... taste ; as there is no model for it in all Nature's works , even where she is most fanciful - on the course of Newmarket or in the hundreds of Drury . Bisset might be more happy in his drunken scene , were he to study the graces ...
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... Taste , an Epistle to a Lady , ' in Donaldson's ' Col- lection of Poems , ' 1760. A more ela- borate Account of his Life , Character and Poems , ' was given to the world by Mr. Spence , the amiable and elegant sey , ' ' Polymetis ...
... Taste , an Epistle to a Lady , ' in Donaldson's ' Col- lection of Poems , ' 1760. A more ela- borate Account of his Life , Character and Poems , ' was given to the world by Mr. Spence , the amiable and elegant sey , ' ' Polymetis ...
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