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... admiration , the other mentioned with tenderness and caution * . The criticisms which are wrote on the works of authors living at the time they are published , ought , above all others , to be compofed with the greateft candour and love ...
... admiration , the other mentioned with tenderness and caution * . The criticisms which are wrote on the works of authors living at the time they are published , ought , above all others , to be compofed with the greateft candour and love ...
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... admirable in thofe it does , ought always to be preferred to one of a continued elegance , without thofe noble ftrokes of poetry . Les Lecteurs , fays Trublet , ordinaires préférent les ouvrages d'une beauté continue , quoique médio ...
... admirable in thofe it does , ought always to be preferred to one of a continued elegance , without thofe noble ftrokes of poetry . Les Lecteurs , fays Trublet , ordinaires préférent les ouvrages d'une beauté continue , quoique médio ...
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... admirably executed , that one imagines it fo foft , that it must yield to the touch . Here indeed the flatuary's skill is not a little aided by the polish of the marble , which at firft was of a pure white , but time has given it a ...
... admirably executed , that one imagines it fo foft , that it must yield to the touch . Here indeed the flatuary's skill is not a little aided by the polish of the marble , which at firft was of a pure white , but time has given it a ...
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... admiration of all ages , and the refort of curious perfons to fee it , the Venus of Medicis has not escap . ed cenfure . Moft connoiffeurs agree , that the head is rather too fmall in pro- portion to the other parts of the body , and ...
... admiration of all ages , and the refort of curious perfons to fee it , the Venus of Medicis has not escap . ed cenfure . Moft connoiffeurs agree , that the head is rather too fmall in pro- portion to the other parts of the body , and ...
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... admirable pieces ; whereas here they ferve rather as foils to the Venus of Medicis , only increafing the admiration of it , while their own excel- lencies are quite unnoticed . That on her right is twice as big , with the golden apple ...
... admirable pieces ; whereas here they ferve rather as foils to the Venus of Medicis , only increafing the admiration of it , while their own excel- lencies are quite unnoticed . That on her right is twice as big , with the golden apple ...
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Addiſon admirable Alcamenes Apelles becauſe bring certain taunts compofition criticifm itſelf criticiſms appeared critics is reaſonable critique elle-meme defcription deferves elegy employ themſelves fame fatirized favourite's reputa fays feeing the latent feems fentiments feveral fhaft of ridicule fhall fhould fince fome fore his criticiſms fpirit ftrokes fubject fuch proper objects genius greateſt haughty infolence hiftorian hiftory himſelf infolence of decifion injudicious and malevolent itfelf as lightly itſelf is abfurd Journal des Sçavans judgments are humour juft liger wrote modeſty moft Monody moſt muſt n'eft qu'un art nions number of thoſe paffage paffions Phidias philofophical pieces pleaſure in feeing plufieurs menfonges poem poet poetry been obliged praiſe prefent publiſhed racter raiſe his favourite's reafon reffemble le mieux ridicule of injudicious taunts and reflections thefe themſelves in pointing theſe thofe thoſe who bring Tibullus tion trifling critics ture extremely uſeful verfification Virgil Virgil's tomb world with diffidence Young here mentions
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