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Page iv
... most affectionate and friendly part in all their concerns . The former , a man of uncommon penetration and good tafte , had very early discovered , through the rudenefs of young Thomfon's puerile effays , a fund of genius well deferving ...
... most affectionate and friendly part in all their concerns . The former , a man of uncommon penetration and good tafte , had very early discovered , through the rudenefs of young Thomfon's puerile effays , a fund of genius well deferving ...
Page vii
... 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 MR . JAMES THOMSON . vii to her ...
... 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 MR . JAMES THOMSON . vii to her ...
Page ix
... most masterly ftriking parts of it ; but at last , turning to Mr. Thomson , he told him , fmiling , that if he thought of being useful in the ministry , he must keep a ftricter rein upon his imagination , and exprefs himself in language ...
... most masterly ftriking parts of it ; but at last , turning to Mr. Thomson , he told him , fmiling , that if he thought of being useful in the ministry , he must keep a ftricter rein upon his imagination , and exprefs himself in language ...
Page xv
... most of the courts and capital cities of Eu- rope ; and returned with his views greatly enlarged ; not of exterior nature only , and the works of art , but of human life and manners , of the conftitution and policy of the several states ...
... most of the courts and capital cities of Eu- rope ; and returned with his views greatly enlarged ; not of exterior nature only , and the works of art , but of human life and manners , of the conftitution and policy of the several states ...
Page xvi
... most revered and loved . At the fame time , he found himself , from an eafy competency , reduced to a itate of precarious dependence , in which he paffed the remainder of his life ; excepting only the two last years of it , during which ...
... most revered and loved . At the fame time , he found himself , from an eafy competency , reduced to a itate of precarious dependence , in which he paffed the remainder of his life ; excepting only the two last years of it , during which ...
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