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Page 88
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
Page 111
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to ...
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to ...
Page 445
... excellence of a translator , such as may be read with pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not sufficiently vigorous to attain ...
... excellence of a translator , such as may be read with pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not sufficiently vigorous to attain ...
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