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Page vii
... DIXERIS ESSE SATIS- are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious A 4 judicious than the method he pre- scribes , of trying DEDICATION . vii.
... DIXERIS ESSE SATIS- are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious A 4 judicious than the method he pre- scribes , of trying DEDICATION . vii.
Page viii
... lines ; " Yes , you defpife " the man that is confined to books , " who rails at human kind from his cr Study ; tho ' what he learns , he speaks ; " and may perhaps advance some gene- " ral maxims , or may be right by " chance . << you ...
... lines ; " Yes , you defpife " the man that is confined to books , " who rails at human kind from his cr Study ; tho ' what he learns , he speaks ; " and may perhaps advance some gene- " ral maxims , or may be right by " chance . << you ...
Page ix
... " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any 1 any process of critical chymistry , you can lower DEDICATION . ix.
... " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any 1 any process of critical chymistry , you can lower DEDICATION . ix.
Page 12
... lines , which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious ad- dition of circumftances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . PoE has been happy in introducing the following ...
... lines , which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious ad- dition of circumftances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . PoE has been happy in introducing the following ...
Page 20
... lines are incomparably good , is not fo full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE digreffion that describes the demoli- tion of the thirty villages by William the Conqueror , is well imagined ...
... lines are incomparably good , is not fo full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE digreffion that describes the demoli- tion of the thirty villages by William the Conqueror , is well imagined ...
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