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" And it is very remarkable, that notwithstanding we fall short at present of the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in... "
The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Page 127
1794
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 5-6

Spectator The - 1853 - 566 pages
...ancients in poetry, painting, orator}', history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...the aneients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, arehitecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial acts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial acts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial acts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1854 - 630 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggrel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial acts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial acts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others].

Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...the ancients iu poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arU and sciences WI L N YQ {Ї o<) : ł A uP oݦ ] FN{6\Z qG ? ٠ ; Nj?| doggrel humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the...
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Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"

Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 344 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but...
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