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Page 34
... style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton difdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not eafily under- ftood without examples ; and I have there- fore collected inftances of the modes of writ- ing by which ...
... style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton difdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not eafily under- ftood without examples ; and I have there- fore collected inftances of the modes of writ- ing by which ...
Page 56
... style and fentiment , from burlefque levity to awful grandeur . Such an affemblage of diverfified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism ...
... style and fentiment , from burlefque levity to awful grandeur . Such an affemblage of diverfified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism ...
Page 137
... style ; and Francini wrote him an ode , of which the firft ftanza is only empty noife ; the rest are perhaps too diffufe on common topicks : but the laft is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to ...
... style ; and Francini wrote him an ode , of which the firft ftanza is only empty noife ; the rest are perhaps too diffufe on common topicks : but the laft is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to ...
Page 149
... style of his piece is rough , and such perhaps was that of his antagonist . This roughness he juftifies , by great examples in a long digreffion . Sometimes he tries to be humorous : " Left I fhould take him for " fome chaplain in hand ...
... style of his piece is rough , and such perhaps was that of his antagonist . This roughness he juftifies , by great examples in a long digreffion . Sometimes he tries to be humorous : " Left I fhould take him for " fome chaplain in hand ...
Page 324
... a tranflation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to understand him ; that perfpicuity should be ftudied , and unusual and uncouth names fpa fparingly inferted ; and that the style of the original 324 ROSCOMMON .
... a tranflation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to understand him ; that perfpicuity should be ftudied , and unusual and uncouth names fpa fparingly inferted ; and that the style of the original 324 ROSCOMMON .
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