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Page 42
... called a set of hereditary ima- ges , without proper regard to the age , or climate , or occafion in which they were for- merly used . Though the diction of the SEA- SONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and fometimės turgid and ...
... called a set of hereditary ima- ges , without proper regard to the age , or climate , or occafion in which they were for- merly used . Though the diction of the SEA- SONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and fometimės turgid and ...
Page 51
... called , in Tonfon's Mifcellanies . We have there alfo preferved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inferting in this note . It was fet to mufic , 1687 , by I. Baptifta Draghi ...
... called , in Tonfon's Mifcellanies . We have there alfo preferved another , and an earlier ode , of Dryden on this fubject . One stanza of which I cannot forbear inferting in this note . It was fet to mufic , 1687 , by I. Baptifta Draghi ...
Page 59
... called miferam Eurydicen . I am fenfible POPE never in- tended an exact tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that , in my humble judgment , he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the ...
... called miferam Eurydicen . I am fenfible POPE never in- tended an exact tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that , in my humble judgment , he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the ...
Page 83
... called , were such as our poet remember- ed from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . QUINTILIAN , whofe knowledge of hu- man nature was confummate , has obferved , that nothing ...
... called , were such as our poet remember- ed from his own ALCANDER . So fenfible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . QUINTILIAN , whofe knowledge of hu- man nature was confummate , has obferved , that nothing ...
Page 122
... called the HOOE in them , than the compofitions of any other Modern . For the reft , the author begs leave to add , that he is fo far from being afhamed of retracting his error , that he had rather appear a MAN OF CANDOR , than the best ...
... called the HOOE in them , than the compofitions of any other Modern . For the reft , the author begs leave to add , that he is fo far from being afhamed of retracting his error , that he had rather appear a MAN OF CANDOR , than the best ...
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