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... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
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... observed , delighted in change and novelty , and even in religion itself , courted new appearances and modifications ... observed , at last , wishes for retreat : he sees his expectations frustrated in the world , and begins to ...
... observed , delighted in change and novelty , and even in religion itself , courted new appearances and modifications ... observed , at last , wishes for retreat : he sees his expectations frustrated in the world , and begins to ...
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... observed , " They are very well ; but such as twenty people might write . " Upon this I took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim , “ mediocribus esse poetis Non Dî , non homines , non concessêre columna : ” for here , ( I observed ...
... observed , " They are very well ; but such as twenty people might write . " Upon this I took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim , “ mediocribus esse poetis Non Dî , non homines , non concessêre columna : ” for here , ( I observed ...
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