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Page 57
... writing , feldom rife up fingly , but at certain periods of time appear together , and in a body ; as they did at Rome in the reign of Auguftus , and in Greece about the age of Sccrates . I cannot think that Corneille , Racine , Moliere ...
... writing , feldom rife up fingly , but at certain periods of time appear together , and in a body ; as they did at Rome in the reign of Auguftus , and in Greece about the age of Sccrates . I cannot think that Corneille , Racine , Moliere ...
Page 93
... writing , wherein the poet quite lofes fight of Nature , and entertains his reader's imagination with the characters and actions of such persons as have many of them no existence , but what he bestows on them . Such are fairies ...
... writing , wherein the poet quite lofes fight of Nature , and entertains his reader's imagination with the characters and actions of such persons as have many of them no existence , but what he bestows on them . Such are fairies ...
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... writing , N. 419. The pleasures of imagi- nation that arife from it , ibid . More difficult than any other , and why ... writers have in it to please the imagination , N. 419. What other writers please in it , 420 . Fidelia , her duty to ...
... writing , N. 419. The pleasures of imagi- nation that arife from it , ibid . More difficult than any other , and why ... writers have in it to please the imagination , N. 419. What other writers please in it , 420 . Fidelia , her duty to ...
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