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Book XIX Chap. 27.prejudices of his faction, as he could be in a despotic state.

Their poets have more frequently an original rudeness of invention, than that particular kind of delicacy which springs from taste, we there find something which approaches nearer to the bold strength of a Michael Angelo, than to the softer graces of a Raphael.


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