Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 66Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1782 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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Page 169 - in our own language. But fcience had not made too great advances. On the whole, we were now arrived at that period, propitious to the operations of original and true poetry, when the coynefs of farcy was not always proof againft the approaches of reafon, when genius was rather directed than governed by judgment, and when
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