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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08, Volume II

Note 116 — POPE.

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What eye of taste ever beheld the dancing fawn or the immortal Canova’s dancing girl, and doubted of this power? Pindar long ago assigned this to sculpture, and was never censured for his poetic boldness: Ἑργα δἑ ζωοἱσιν ερπὁν- τεσσἱ θ' ομοἱα κἑλευθοι Φἑρον. Olym. vii. 95. Ed.

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