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Page 65
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lefbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , fumque Etna fimul ; reftringite flammas ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lefbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , fumque Etna fimul ; reftringite flammas ...
Page 71
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary sense , more that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied . upon Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The ...
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary sense , more that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied . upon Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The ...
Page 78
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in converfation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted by Rymer it has once been praifed ; and by Dry- den , in " Mac Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I ...
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in converfation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted by Rymer it has once been praifed ; and by Dry- den , in " Mac Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I ...
Page 117
... fpriteliness of poetry . The " ftrength of Denham , " which Pope fo emphatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much 1 3 mean- meaning in few words , and exhibit the fen- timent DEN H A M. 117.
... fpriteliness of poetry . The " ftrength of Denham , " which Pope fo emphatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much 1 3 mean- meaning in few words , and exhibit the fen- timent DEN H A M. 117.
Page 129
... mentions his exile , proves like- wife that it was not perpetual ; for it con- cludes with a refolution of returning fome time to Cambridge . And it may be conjec- tured , from the willingness with which he has perpetuated the memory of ...
... mentions his exile , proves like- wife that it was not perpetual ; for it con- cludes with a refolution of returning fome time to Cambridge . And it may be conjec- tured , from the willingness with which he has perpetuated the memory of ...
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