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... any particular decoration to his style ; he only uses French words , when the force and meaning of the paffages fo quoted depend on the pe- culiar turn and idiom of the original AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS O - F.
... any particular decoration to his style ; he only uses French words , when the force and meaning of the paffages fo quoted depend on the pe- culiar turn and idiom of the original AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS and WRITINGS O - F.
Page 64
... French , as not having so great a quan- tity of words derived from the Latin . But the Latin language itself , as well as all others , muit yield to the unparallelled sweet- nefs and copiousness of the Greek . Tanto eft fermo græcus ...
... French , as not having so great a quan- tity of words derived from the Latin . But the Latin language itself , as well as all others , muit yield to the unparallelled sweet- nefs and copiousness of the Greek . Tanto eft fermo græcus ...
Page 67
... French poefy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a legitimate ode , though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to recom- mend them . The Odes of la Motte , are fuller of delicate fentiment , and philofophi ...
... French poefy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a legitimate ode , though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to recom- mend them . The Odes of la Motte , are fuller of delicate fentiment , and philofophi ...
Page 69
... French and Italian , but even to the best Latin odes . In the pieces here commended , the figures are ftrong , and the tranfitions bold , and there is a just mixture of fentiment and imagery ; and particularly , they are animated with a ...
... French and Italian , but even to the best Latin odes . In the pieces here commended , the figures are ftrong , and the tranfitions bold , and there is a just mixture of fentiment and imagery ; and particularly , they are animated with a ...
Page 98
... French with fo much addrefs , and which he hath happily made fo homogeneous , and of a piece with the rest of the work , that every thing feems to have been conceived in a continued train of thought , by the very fame perfon , confer as ...
... French with fo much addrefs , and which he hath happily made fo homogeneous , and of a piece with the rest of the work , that every thing feems to have been conceived in a continued train of thought , by the very fame perfon , confer as ...
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