The Works of the English Poets, Volume 19J. Rivington, 1779 - 366 pages |
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Page 104
... Poetry which you have undertaken to adorn . The most vain , and the most ambitious of our age , have not dared to affume fo much , as the competitors of Themistocles : they have yielded the first place without dispute ; and have been ...
... Poetry which you have undertaken to adorn . The most vain , and the most ambitious of our age , have not dared to affume fo much , as the competitors of Themistocles : they have yielded the first place without dispute ; and have been ...
Page 107
... poet , we would thank you for our own quiet , and not expose you to the want of yours . But when you are so great and fo fuccefsful , and when we have that that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
... poet , we would thank you for our own quiet , and not expose you to the want of yours . But when you are so great and fo fuccefsful , and when we have that that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
Page 109
... Poetry against them , that I will not fo much as expofe theirs . And for my morals , if they are not proof against their attacks , let me be thought by pofterity , what thofe authors would be thought , if any memory of them , or of ...
... Poetry against them , that I will not fo much as expofe theirs . And for my morals , if they are not proof against their attacks , let me be thought by pofterity , what thofe authors would be thought , if any memory of them , or of ...
Page 110
... poetry and falfe coin . A fhilling , dipt in the bath , may go for gold amongst the igno- rant ; but the fceptrês on the guineas fhew the dif- ference . That your Lordship is formed by nature for this fupremacy , I could cafily prove ...
... poetry and falfe coin . A fhilling , dipt in the bath , may go for gold amongst the igno- rant ; but the fceptrês on the guineas fhew the dif- ference . That your Lordship is formed by nature for this fupremacy , I could cafily prove ...
Page 111
... poetry for their fpurious productions . I can farther add with truth ( though not without some va- nity in saying it ) that in the fame paper , written by divers hands , whereof your Lordship was only part , I could feparate your gold ...
... poetry for their fpurious productions . I can farther add with truth ( though not without some va- nity in saying it ) that in the fame paper , written by divers hands , whereof your Lordship was only part , I could feparate your gold ...
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