Impartial Strictures on the Poem Called "The Pursuits of Literature:": And Particularly a Vindication of the Romance of "The Monk" ...J. Bell, 1798 - 56 pages |
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... Greek are in general felected with the greatest aptness , are poured upon us in torrents , but frequently without enlivening the style or elucidating the fubject ; many of them with very little , and fome with no application at all ...
... Greek are in general felected with the greatest aptness , are poured upon us in torrents , but frequently without enlivening the style or elucidating the fubject ; many of them with very little , and fome with no application at all ...
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... Greek word ; others again look upon it ( i . e . pawón ) as a word grecifed , from the La- tin panula . Then as to its fignification - though by most it is understood to fignify a cloak or coat , yet there are some who think it means a ...
... Greek word ; others again look upon it ( i . e . pawón ) as a word grecifed , from the La- tin panula . Then as to its fignification - though by most it is understood to fignify a cloak or coat , yet there are some who think it means a ...
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... Greek ; for he has forgotten two words in the original , which are in the accusative case , and given two by memory , which are in the dative : τοις εμοις λόγοις επινεύσατε , inftead of την βασίλίκη κεφαλην επίνευσατε . It is moreover ...
... Greek ; for he has forgotten two words in the original , which are in the accusative case , and given two by memory , which are in the dative : τοις εμοις λόγοις επινεύσατε , inftead of την βασίλίκη κεφαλην επίνευσατε . It is moreover ...
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... Greek than his own lan- guage : I will at the fame time point out their errors . 1 σε Δία Ευφημίας και δυσφημίας . ” 2 Cor . vi . ver . 8 . In the motto to the introductory letter he has given a long quotation from Taffo , which , as it ...
... Greek than his own lan- guage : I will at the fame time point out their errors . 1 σε Δία Ευφημίας και δυσφημίας . ” 2 Cor . vi . ver . 8 . In the motto to the introductory letter he has given a long quotation from Taffo , which , as it ...
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... Greek ; it shews fome idea of fhame . " Government and Literature are now more than ever intimately connected . " - Should our author mean to fay that every government ought to feel the force of liter- ature , I will agree with him ...
... Greek ; it shews fome idea of fhame . " Government and Literature are now more than ever intimately connected . " - Should our author mean to fay that every government ought to feel the force of liter- ature , I will agree with him ...
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againſt alfo allufion alſo anſwer appears aſk BARBADORO becauſe beſt cafe cauſe character CHARLES SMALL claffical compofition confider conftitution Council of Florence criticiſm defign defire deſcription diſcover Effay expreffion faid fame fatire feems feen fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething ftate ftile ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure genius GEORGE CHALMERS himſelf Horace Houſe imitation inftance itſelf juftice Juvenal laft laſt LEARNED CRITIC leaſt lefs LETTER literary Lord Lord Liverpool mafter means meaſure Minifter moft MORNING CHRONICLE moſt muft muſt myſelf never obfervations occafion opinion paffage paffed perfon Philofopher Pindar Pitt pleaſed pleaſure Poem Poet poetical poetry Pope praiſe prefent profe publiſhed Purfuits of Literature purpoſe Pybus quotation reader reaſon reſemblance reſpect Ruffias Santon ſay ſhall ſome ſpeak ſpirit thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion tranflation Treaſury underſtand uſe Virgil whofe words writer
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Page 62 - tis enough to temper and employ ; But what compofes Man , can Man deftroy ? Suffice that Reafon keep to Nature's road , 1 1 S Snbject, compound them, follow her and God. Love , Hope , and Joy , fair pleafure's fmiling train , Hate , Fear , and Grief, the family of pain , Thefe mix'd "with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of the mind...
Page 9 - And more than Echoes talk along the walls. Here, as I watch'd the dying lamps around, From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound. 'Come, sister, come!' (it said, or seem'd to say) 'Thy place is here, sad sister, come away! Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, Love's victim then, tho...
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Page 104 - Pallas guarded through the dreadful field ; Might darts be bid to turn their points away, And swords around him innocently play; The war's whole art with wonder had he seen, And counted heroes where he counted men. So fought each host, with thirst of glory fired, And crowds on crowds triumphantly expired.
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Page 48 - ... he suggested to him. But the officers before they would yield to leave the princess, sent one of their number to know the king's pleasure. That monarch, who had an entire confidence in Barsisa, never in the least scrupled the trusting of his daughter with him.
Page 32 - The LEARNED CRITIC calls for this liberality of judgment in behalf of the Poets, with whom particularly he was concerned. I find myfelf, juft at this prefent, very much difpofed to claim the fame confideration for the writers in Profe; having in my mind two paffages from two celebrated writers in that form, which I am ftrongly tempted to fend you. The late Dr. Ogden, who in my judgment holds the very higheft rank amongft the moji eminent preachers, in one of thofe excellent fermons on the fifth commandment,...