Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Svazek 3C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... critic , it will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind , which , perhaps , for a less purchase , would be thought but an in- different bargain . — Swift . XLV . Nothing is more evident than that divers persons , no other way ...
... critic , it will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind , which , perhaps , for a less purchase , would be thought but an in- different bargain . — Swift . XLV . Nothing is more evident than that divers persons , no other way ...
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... critics , and correct his invention there as in a mirror . Now , whoever considers that the mirrors of the ancients were made of brass and fine mercurio , may presently apply the two principal qualifications of a true modern critic ...
... critics , and correct his invention there as in a mirror . Now , whoever considers that the mirrors of the ancients were made of brass and fine mercurio , may presently apply the two principal qualifications of a true modern critic ...
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... critics may be known by their talents of swarming about the noblest writers , to which they are carried merely by instinct , as a rat to the best cheese , or a wasp to the fairest flower . Lastly , I define a true critic to be , in the ...
... critics may be known by their talents of swarming about the noblest writers , to which they are carried merely by instinct , as a rat to the best cheese , or a wasp to the fairest flower . Lastly , I define a true critic to be , in the ...
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... critic is a hero born , descending in a direct fine from a celestial stem , by Momus and Hybris , who begat Zoilus , who begat Tygellius , who begat Etcætera the elder , who begat Bentley , and Rymer , and Wootton , and Perrault , and ...
... critic is a hero born , descending in a direct fine from a celestial stem , by Momus and Hybris , who begat Zoilus , who begat Tygellius , who begat Etcætera the elder , who begat Bentley , and Rymer , and Wootton , and Perrault , and ...
Strana 37
... critic has been certainly a green one , the perfection and acquirement of his age being only the improved talent of his youth ; like hemp , which some naturalists inform us , is bad for suffocations , though taken but in the seed ...
... critic has been certainly a green one , the perfection and acquirement of his age being only the improved talent of his youth ; like hemp , which some naturalists inform us , is bad for suffocations , though taken but in the seed ...
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