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... critical standard of an age in which the practice of poetry has become the exercise of every elegant imagination . ... which does not conform to the rules of artifice and elegance is put out of court as inartistic and barbarous .
... critical standard of an age in which the practice of poetry has become the exercise of every elegant imagination . ... which does not conform to the rules of artifice and elegance is put out of court as inartistic and barbarous .
Page 84
Caesar , when he assumed the perpetual dictatorship , had not more servile or more elegant flattery . A translation may shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the ...
Caesar , when he assumed the perpetual dictatorship , had not more servile or more elegant flattery . A translation may shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the ...
Page 428
No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure , separated mirth from indecency , and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid ...
No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure , separated mirth from indecency , and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid ...
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