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Page 109
... excellent moral while it inculcates a future state of retribution ; 2 and 1P . 447 . " My position has been very well illustrated by Mr. Belsham of Bedford , in his Essay on Dramatic Poetry . " The fashionable doctrine ( says he ) both ...
... excellent moral while it inculcates a future state of retribution ; 2 and 1P . 447 . " My position has been very well illustrated by Mr. Belsham of Bedford , in his Essay on Dramatic Poetry . " The fashionable doctrine ( says he ) both ...
Page 217
... excellent historical works , in the ardour of contest , than expressed his real and decided opinion ; for it is not easy to suppose , that he should so widely differ from the rest of the liter- ary world . JOHNSON . " I remember once ...
... excellent historical works , in the ardour of contest , than expressed his real and decided opinion ; for it is not easy to suppose , that he should so widely differ from the rest of the liter- ary world . JOHNSON . " I remember once ...
Page 288
... excellent poem , The Fleece . " Having talked of Grainger's Sugar - Cane , I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me , that this poem , when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's had made all the assembled wits burst into a ...
... excellent poem , The Fleece . " Having talked of Grainger's Sugar - Cane , I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me , that this poem , when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's had made all the assembled wits burst into a ...
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