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Page 45
... best of my remembrance hath escaped even the na- tural Theocritus . Nor do I recollect that any poet hath been struck with the murmurs of the numberless infects , that swarm abroad at the noon of a fummer's day ; as attendants of the ...
... best of my remembrance hath escaped even the na- tural Theocritus . Nor do I recollect that any poet hath been struck with the murmurs of the numberless infects , that swarm abroad at the noon of a fummer's day ; as attendants of the ...
Page 69
... best 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 ...
... best 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 ...
Page 81
... best part of that book , as they were defigned and engraved by artists of note . At twelve , he retired with his father into Windfor - Foreft ; and it was there he firft perufed the writings of Waller , of Spenser , and of Dryden ...
... best part of that book , as they were defigned and engraved by artists of note . At twelve , he retired with his father into Windfor - Foreft ; and it was there he firft perufed the writings of Waller , of Spenser , and of Dryden ...
Page 91
... best thoughts ; " Per- eant qui ante nos , noftra dixerunt * . " MENAGE makes thefe obfervations on ac- cafion of a paffage in the Poetics of Vida , Anti - Baillet , tom . ii . pag . 207 . intend- intended to justify borrowing the ...
... best thoughts ; " Per- eant qui ante nos , noftra dixerunt * . " MENAGE makes thefe obfervations on ac- cafion of a paffage in the Poetics of Vida , Anti - Baillet , tom . ii . pag . 207 . intend- intended to justify borrowing the ...
Page 103
... best Greek and Roman , particularly the latter , but the most celebrated of the French and Italian claffics . Du Bos + fixes the period of time , at which , generally speaking , the poets and the painters have arrived at as high a pitch ...
... best Greek and Roman , particularly the latter , but the most celebrated of the French and Italian claffics . Du Bos + fixes the period of time , at which , generally speaking , the poets and the painters have arrived at as high a pitch ...
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