Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... particular men was not very much re- garded , we fhould not fee the true merit of almost every author ( who has been dead feveral years ) fo well known . It is true , the bulk of readers make a toler- able judgment enough upon works of ...
... particular men was not very much re- garded , we fhould not fee the true merit of almost every author ( who has been dead feveral years ) fo well known . It is true , the bulk of readers make a toler- able judgment enough upon works of ...
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... fo little a distance from the eye , seemed hideous ; it had a large gap- ing mouth , noftrils which appeared to Trublet . fhrink and be drawn back ; and had I know fhrink ( 14 ) upon this or that particular paffage in ...
... fo little a distance from the eye , seemed hideous ; it had a large gap- ing mouth , noftrils which appeared to Trublet . fhrink and be drawn back ; and had I know fhrink ( 14 ) upon this or that particular paffage in ...
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... particular feature , in the complexion , or the shape and the general fymmetry of the body , they will very poffibly anfwer , that they fee nothing beautiful in thefe , confidered feparately ; fo that we may very reason- ably conclude ...
... particular feature , in the complexion , or the shape and the general fymmetry of the body , they will very poffibly anfwer , that they fee nothing beautiful in thefe , confidered feparately ; fo that we may very reason- ably conclude ...
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... particular people . " When an ugly woman is be- loved , fays Bruyere , it must certainly be very defperately ; for either it must pro- ceed from a strange weakness in her lo- ver , or from fome more fecret and for- cible charms than ...
... particular people . " When an ugly woman is be- loved , fays Bruyere , it must certainly be very defperately ; for either it must pro- ceed from a strange weakness in her lo- ver , or from fome more fecret and for- cible charms than ...
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... particular is not represented as flinted by art , but as exactly proportioned by nature to all the other parts of her body . Venus , in all at- titudes , is graceful ; but in no one more than in that of the Venus of Medici ; in which ...
... particular is not represented as flinted by art , but as exactly proportioned by nature to all the other parts of her body . Venus , in all at- titudes , is graceful ; but in no one more than in that of the Venus of Medici ; in which ...
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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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