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Page vii
... best poets and critics . But the most learned critic is not always the best judge of poetry ; tafte being a gift of nature , the want of which , Aristotle and Boffu cannot fupply ; nor even the study of the best originals , when the B.3 ...
... best poets and critics . But the most learned critic is not always the best judge of poetry ; tafte being a gift of nature , the want of which , Aristotle and Boffu cannot fupply ; nor even the study of the best originals , when the B.3 ...
Page viii
James Thomson. even the study of the best originals , when the reader's faculties are not tuned in a certain confonance to those of the poet and this happened to be the cafe with certain learned gentlemen , into whose hands a few of Mr ...
James Thomson. even the study of the best originals , when the reader's faculties are not tuned in a certain confonance to those of the poet and this happened to be the cafe with certain learned gentlemen , into whose hands a few of Mr ...
Page xiv
... best of fathers , in whatever could adorn humanity : graceful of perfon , elegant in manners and addrefs , pious , humane , generous ; with an exquifite tafte in all the finer arts . With this amiable companion and friend , Mr. Thom ...
... best of fathers , in whatever could adorn humanity : graceful of perfon , elegant in manners and addrefs , pious , humane , generous ; with an exquifite tafte in all the finer arts . With this amiable companion and friend , Mr. Thom ...
Page xvii
James Thomson. one step in the affair : a neglect which his best friends greatly blamed in him . Yet could not his genius be depreffed , or his temper hurt , by this reverse of fortune . He refumed , with time , his ufual cheerfulness ...
James Thomson. one step in the affair : a neglect which his best friends greatly blamed in him . Yet could not his genius be depreffed , or his temper hurt , by this reverse of fortune . He refumed , with time , his ufual cheerfulness ...
Page xx
... best men , and best poets , that lived in it . He had always been a timorous horseman ; and more XX THE LIFE OF.
... best men , and best poets , that lived in it . He had always been a timorous horseman ; and more XX THE LIFE OF.
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