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Page 49
... diction of his heroick poem is less familiar than that of his slightest writings . He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very ...
... diction of his heroick poem is less familiar than that of his slightest writings . He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very ...
Page 115
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
Page 146
... diction of this poem is grossly familiar , and the numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The ...
... diction of this poem is grossly familiar , and the numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The ...
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