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Page 97
... beautiful effect ! In short , it is not served the name of poet . I have his least praise , that he is never guil- read him twice , and some of his ty of those faults as a writer , which pieces three times over ; and the last he lays to ...
... beautiful effect ! In short , it is not served the name of poet . I have his least praise , that he is never guil- read him twice , and some of his ty of those faults as a writer , which pieces three times over ; and the last he lays to ...
Page 108
... beautiful , and new ; its wit transcendently excellent : but LETTER VI . the scientific part of it is very ex- Dr. Beattie to Sir William Forbes . ceptionable . Whatever Pope bor- rows from Leibnitz , like most other Aberdeen , 17th ...
... beautiful , and new ; its wit transcendently excellent : but LETTER VI . the scientific part of it is very ex- Dr. Beattie to Sir William Forbes . ceptionable . Whatever Pope bor- rows from Leibnitz , like most other Aberdeen , 17th ...
Page 216
... beautiful elegy , Lady Bothwell's La- Mr. Erskine's supplemental stan- ment , he says the four stanzas he zas to the poem , asserted to have has given appear to be all that are been written by Collins , on the High- genuine . It has ...
... beautiful elegy , Lady Bothwell's La- Mr. Erskine's supplemental stan- ment , he says the four stanzas he zas to the poem , asserted to have has given appear to be all that are been written by Collins , on the High- genuine . It has ...
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