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... appears to me a continued invective against ambition and unbounded power . : The progrefs he made in all parts of learning muft , needs have been very great , confidering the pregnancy of his genius , and the nice care that was taken in ...
... appears to me a continued invective against ambition and unbounded power . : The progrefs he made in all parts of learning muft , needs have been very great , confidering the pregnancy of his genius , and the nice care that was taken in ...
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... appears from an old fragment of his life , that he fent for him from Athens , where he was at his ftudies , to Rome for that purpose . Every one knows , that Nero , for the five firft years of his reign , either really was , or ...
... appears from an old fragment of his life , that he fent for him from Athens , where he was at his ftudies , to Rome for that purpose . Every one knows , that Nero , for the five firft years of his reign , either really was , or ...
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... appears to have been a great deal of envy in the cafe , blended with his other prejudices against him , upon ' the account of his poetry . Though the spirit and height of the Roman poetry was fomewhat declined from what it had been in ...
... appears to have been a great deal of envy in the cafe , blended with his other prejudices against him , upon ' the account of his poetry . Though the spirit and height of the Roman poetry was fomewhat declined from what it had been in ...
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... blood ; and he made appear , in the exercife of the fupreme power , a noble and gene- rous inclination to clemency upon all occafions : even Lucan , .. C 3 Lucan , though never fo much his enerhy , has ROWE'S LUCA N. 21.
... blood ; and he made appear , in the exercife of the fupreme power , a noble and gene- rous inclination to clemency upon all occafions : even Lucan , .. C 3 Lucan , though never fo much his enerhy , has ROWE'S LUCA N. 21.
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... appear heavy and flat , and confe- quently incumber his genius , or his verfe . All these trifling parts of action would take off from the plea- fure and entertainment , which is the main fcope of that manner of writing . Thus the ...
... appear heavy and flat , and confe- quently incumber his genius , or his verfe . All these trifling parts of action would take off from the plea- fure and entertainment , which is the main fcope of that manner of writing . Thus the ...
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