A letter to the learned Dr. Woodward / By Dr. [J.] Byfielde [i.e. J. Freind?].

  • John Freind
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to the learned Dr. Woodward / By Dr. [J.] Byfielde [i.e. J. Freind?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (<Oi * Conf. p. i66. and far from commqp \ -and whiffe in- * Vid. Tati. May 49. i7°9» 3 Virg. iEn.9. deed was purely my own: So that.tho’ it be publiih’d in Englijb, ’tis ftill asmuclia Myftery to the Vulgar, as if it had been i writ in a,foreign Tongue. cJ The Incomparable.. Incomprehenfible Author of a late little Trad, call’d the Tanked Truth, has * fuccefsfully imitated fome of thefe Beauties j but unhappily . for the Age, he has not oblig’d the World with any more of his Perfor¬ mances. But now—-Quod opt an ft Di- vkmpromitterenemo Auderet 3. ... I fee the great Genius of Grejbam come finally into this Path of Writing y which ' in truth is Audi, eafy, free, quaint, ner- what style vous, elegant, fonorous, fublime, tran- tbe left. fcen(]ent-aj v ancj j doubt not, but that in a little time our Example will raife it ' / 2 , s 4 1, r • 'i pj * „ .* ? X 0 * ^ to be the Standard of the Englifh Lanr guage, as comporting with the exa&eft ♦ conf. Module 4 of genuine Oratory. pref p. 6. ° J & p. 196. Your Sentiments were very juft, when they inclin’d you to level this your Trea- tife agamfl the Dijlempers and Calami¬ ties of England, We have had many * Eimtjfi
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