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Page 7
... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the fuppofed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the imagination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i ...
... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the fuppofed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the imagination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Muses . THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i ...
Page 62
... mention of this pathetic air , reminds me of a story of the celebrated Lully , who having been one day accused of ne- ver fetting any thing to music , but the languid verses of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach ...
... mention of this pathetic air , reminds me of a story of the celebrated Lully , who having been one day accused of ne- ver fetting any thing to music , but the languid verses of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach ...
Page 91
... mention of an author named Aretades , who compofed an entire treatise on this fort of refemblances . - And St. Je- rom relates , that his preceptor Donatus , explaining that fenfible paffage in Terence , " Nihil eft dictum quod non fit ...
... mention of an author named Aretades , who compofed an entire treatise on this fort of refemblances . - And St. Je- rom relates , that his preceptor Donatus , explaining that fenfible paffage in Terence , " Nihil eft dictum quod non fit ...
Page 150
... mentioning , who have been ftudious of this beauty . They are Parnelle , Pitt in his Tranflations from Vida , Weft in his Pindar , Thomson in the Castle of In- dolence , and the author of an elegant Ode TO SUMMER , published in a ...
... mentioning , who have been ftudious of this beauty . They are Parnelle , Pitt in his Tranflations from Vida , Weft in his Pindar , Thomson in the Castle of In- dolence , and the author of an elegant Ode TO SUMMER , published in a ...
Page 154
... mention the effort of Ajax , there is no particular heaviness or delay . The fwiftnefs of Camilla is rather contrafted than exemplified . Why the verfe should be lengthened to exprefs fpeed , will not eafily be discovered . In the ...
... mention the effort of Ajax , there is no particular heaviness or delay . The fwiftnefs of Camilla is rather contrafted than exemplified . Why the verfe should be lengthened to exprefs fpeed , will not eafily be discovered . In the ...
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