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... Oxford , in his laft decline of life ; Mr. Secretary Craggs , at the end of the South - Sea year , and after his death : Others only in Epitaphs . I fhall I fhall conclude with remarking , what a pleasure it 12 LETTER ' A.
... Oxford , in his laft decline of life ; Mr. Secretary Craggs , at the end of the South - Sea year , and after his death : Others only in Epitaphs . I fhall I fhall conclude with remarking , what a pleasure it 12 LETTER ' A.
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... fhall conclude with remarking , what a pleasure it must be to every reader of Humanity , to see all along , that our Author , in his very laughter , is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his ...
... fhall conclude with remarking , what a pleasure it must be to every reader of Humanity , to see all along , that our Author , in his very laughter , is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his ...
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... fhall here , according to the laudable ufage of editors , col- lect the various judgments of the Learned concerning our Poet : Various indeed , not only of different au- thors , but of the fame author at different seasons . Nor shall we ...
... fhall here , according to the laudable ufage of editors , col- lect the various judgments of the Learned concerning our Poet : Various indeed , not only of different au- thors , but of the fame author at different seasons . Nor shall we ...
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... fhall fade Its colours : gently has he laid The mantle o'er thy fad diftrefs , And Venus fhall the texture blefs , & c . Come we now to his tranflation of the ILIAD , cele brated by numerous pens , yet fhall it fuffice to mention the ...
... fhall fade Its colours : gently has he laid The mantle o'er thy fad diftrefs , And Venus fhall the texture blefs , & c . Come we now to his tranflation of the ILIAD , cele brated by numerous pens , yet fhall it fuffice to mention the ...
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... fhall next declare the cccafion and the caufe which moved our poet to this particular work . He lived in those days , when ( after Providence had per- mitted the invention of Printing as a fcourge for the fins of the learned ) Paper ...
... fhall next declare the cccafion and the caufe which moved our poet to this particular work . He lived in those days , when ( after Providence had per- mitted the invention of Printing as a fcourge for the fins of the learned ) Paper ...
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