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... say of this paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the ...
... say of this paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the ...
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... puerile conceit . Αιθε γενοίμαν A Η βομβευσα μέλισσα , κι ἐς τεον ανρον ἐκοιμαν , Τον κισσον διαδύς , και ταν πλεριν ὁ τυ πυκασθη . Idyll . ii . 12 . + Paft . ii . 45 . Say Say , Daphnis , fay in what glad foil appears 8 ESSAY ON THE ...
... puerile conceit . Αιθε γενοίμαν A Η βομβευσα μέλισσα , κι ἐς τεον ανρον ἐκοιμαν , Τον κισσον διαδύς , και ταν πλεριν ὁ τυ πυκασθη . Idyll . ii . 12 . + Paft . ii . 45 . Say Say , Daphnis , fay in what glad foil appears 8 ESSAY ON THE ...
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Joseph Warton. Say , Daphnis , fay in what glad foil appears A wondrous tree , that facred monarchs bears ? With what propriety could the tree , whose fhade protected the king , be faid to ... Say, Daphnis, fay in what glad foil appears ...
Joseph Warton. Say , Daphnis , fay in what glad foil appears A wondrous tree , that facred monarchs bears ? With what propriety could the tree , whose fhade protected the king , be faid to ... Say, Daphnis, fay in what glad foil appears ...
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... say , Be not fearful , come away ! The third and fourth lines are eminently good and pathetic , and the climax well pre- ferved ; the very turn of them is closely co- pied by POPE ; as is likewife the striking circumftance of the dying ...
... say , Be not fearful , come away ! The third and fourth lines are eminently good and pathetic , and the climax well pre- ferved ; the very turn of them is closely co- pied by POPE ; as is likewife the striking circumftance of the dying ...
Page 95
... say , Striking their penfive bofoms , here lies GAY , is adopted from an old Latin elegy on the death of prince Henry . This conceit of his friend's being enshrined in the hearts of the virtuous , is , by the way , one of the most ...
... say , Striking their penfive bofoms , here lies GAY , is adopted from an old Latin elegy on the death of prince Henry . This conceit of his friend's being enshrined in the hearts of the virtuous , is , by the way , one of the most ...
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Abelard Addiſon addreffed alfo alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau Cant character circumftance cloſe compofition Corneille defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegance Eloifa epic poetry epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiments fhall firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftanza ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient fylphs genius greateſt hiftory himſelf Homer Iliad images imagination inferted inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft Loft Milton moft moſt mufic muſt numbers o'er obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion painted pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes prefent profe publiſhed quæ Quintilian Racine racter raiſed reafon refpect repreſent ſay ſcene ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpecies ſtory ſtrong ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflated uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe writing