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Page ix
... to his being firft fashioned by the ancient models , and familiarifed to propriety of thought , and chaflity of ftyle . Our country owes it to him , that that the famous Monfieur Boileau first conceived an opinion of The PREFACE ix.
... to his being firft fashioned by the ancient models , and familiarifed to propriety of thought , and chaflity of ftyle . Our country owes it to him , that that the famous Monfieur Boileau first conceived an opinion of The PREFACE ix.
Page xvii
... thought ; and as his hopes of ad- vancement in his own country were fallen with the credit of his friends , who were out of power at the begin- ning of Her late Majefty's reign , he had leisure to make the tour of Ger- many in his way ...
... thought ; and as his hopes of ad- vancement in his own country were fallen with the credit of his friends , who were out of power at the begin- ning of Her late Majefty's reign , he had leisure to make the tour of Ger- many in his way ...
Page xviii
... thought fuffi- ciently inexcufable , because it was the compofition of an English - man ; the Poetry of this piece has givenas much pleasure in the clofet , as o- thers have afforded from the stage , with all the affiftance of voices ...
... thought fuffi- ciently inexcufable , because it was the compofition of an English - man ; the Poetry of this piece has givenas much pleasure in the clofet , as o- thers have afforded from the stage , with all the affiftance of voices ...
Page xxi
... thought fit to diftinguifh his writings in the Specta- tors and Guardians , by fuch marks , as might remove the leaft poffibility of mistake in the moft undifcerning rea- ders . It was neceffary that his fhare in the Tatlers fhould be ...
... thought fit to diftinguifh his writings in the Specta- tors and Guardians , by fuch marks , as might remove the leaft poffibility of mistake in the moft undifcerning rea- ders . It was neceffary that his fhare in the Tatlers fhould be ...
Page xxii
... order , and moulded into the form in which they now appear . Such are the effays upon Wit , the Pleafures of the Imagination , the Critique upon Milton , and fome others , others , which I thought to have con- nected in xxii The PREFACE .
... order , and moulded into the form in which they now appear . Such are the effays upon Wit , the Pleafures of the Imagination , the Critique upon Milton , and fome others , others , which I thought to have con- nected in xxii The PREFACE .
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