The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney D. C. Heath, 1980 - 765 pages |
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... turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a rival's , or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing side . If Mævius scribble in ...
... turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a rival's , or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing side . If Mævius scribble in ...
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... turn , And the huge boar is shrunk into an urn : The board with specious miracles he loads , Turns hares to larks , and pigeons into toads . Another ( for in all what one can shine ? ) Explains the sève and verdeur of the vine . What ...
... turn , And the huge boar is shrunk into an urn : The board with specious miracles he loads , Turns hares to larks , and pigeons into toads . Another ( for in all what one can shine ? ) Explains the sève and verdeur of the vine . What ...
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... turn projector and virtuoso , wherein he so well succeeded , that many famous discoveries , projects , and machines , which bear great vogue and practice at present in the world , are owing entirely to Lord Peter's invention . I will ...
... turn projector and virtuoso , wherein he so well succeeded , that many famous discoveries , projects , and machines , which bear great vogue and practice at present in the world , are owing entirely to Lord Peter's invention . I will ...
Contents
Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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