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Tasso's 'Gierusalemme Liberata' is altogether unquestionably a fine poem, though -- it has some low, and many false thoughts in it: and Boileau very justly makes it the mark of a bad taste, to compare 'le Clinquant Tasse a l' Or de Virgile '.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

Tasso's 'Gierusalemme Liberata' is altogether unquestionably a fine poem, though -- it has some low, and many false thoughts in it: and Boileau very justly makes it the mark of a bad taste, to compare 'le Clinquant Tasse a l' Or de Virgile '.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

Liberata is altogether unquestionably a fine poem, though — it has some low, and many false thoughts in it: and Boileau very justly makes it the mark of a bad taste, to compare le Clinquant Tasse a l’Or de

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005