The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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... first feem to fancy that the world must approve of whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . Methinks , as on the one nand , no fingle man is born with a right of controling ...
... first feem to fancy that the world must approve of whatever they produce , and the latter to imagine that authors are obliged to please them at any rate . Methinks , as on the one nand , no fingle man is born with a right of controling ...
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... first that inform them of . This happens rot till they have spent too much of their time , to apply to any profeffion which might better fit their talents ; and till fuch talents as they have are fo far difcredited as to be but of fmall ...
... first that inform them of . This happens rot till they have spent too much of their time , to apply to any profeffion which might better fit their talents ; and till fuch talents as they have are fo far difcredited as to be but of fmall ...
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... first , and too much judgment to be pleased with them at laft . But I have reafon to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read of ...
... first , and too much judgment to be pleased with them at laft . But I have reafon to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read of ...
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... first , the Public had never been troubled either with my writings , or with this apology for them . I am fenfible how difficult it is to fpeak of one's felf with decency : but when a man must speak of himself , the best way to speak ...
... first , the Public had never been troubled either with my writings , or with this apology for them . I am fenfible how difficult it is to fpeak of one's felf with decency : but when a man must speak of himself , the best way to speak ...
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... first place , I thank God and nature , that I was born with a love to poetry ; for nothing more conduces to fill up all the intervals of our time , or , if rightly ufed , to make the whole courfe of life entertaining " Cantantes licet ...
... first place , I thank God and nature , that I was born with a love to poetry ; for nothing more conduces to fill up all the intervals of our time , or , if rightly ufed , to make the whole courfe of life entertaining " Cantantes licet ...
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