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There are two instances of Torquato Tasso in two chapters.
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one of the most judicious, ingenious, and nearest formed, of any other Italian poet, to the air of the ancient and true poetry, lately fallen! Has …
Torquato Tasso, in the comparison he makes betwixt France and Italy, says that he …