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Page 177
... sub- ject , he afforded copious matter , for a more appropriated and poetical character . No author ever adorned a scientifical treatise with so many beautiful metaphors . Quin- tilian was found in the bottom of a tower of the monastery ...
... sub- ject , he afforded copious matter , for a more appropriated and poetical character . No author ever adorned a scientifical treatise with so many beautiful metaphors . Quin- tilian was found in the bottom of a tower of the monastery ...
Page 178
... what reafon a fentiment or image is SUB- LIME , and discovering the fecret power by which they affect a reader with pleasure , * Ver . 676 , he he is ever intent on producing fomething SUBLIME himself , 178 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... what reafon a fentiment or image is SUB- LIME , and discovering the fecret power by which they affect a reader with pleasure , * Ver . 676 , he he is ever intent on producing fomething SUBLIME himself , 178 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 309
... sub- jects are striking , will , I hope , one day fee the light . They are entitled , " TASSO to LEONORA ; written in an interval of his • Lettres Perfanes . A Genčve , 1716 . + Lady Wortley Montague , who refided fo long at Con ...
... sub- jects are striking , will , I hope , one day fee the light . They are entitled , " TASSO to LEONORA ; written in an interval of his • Lettres Perfanes . A Genčve , 1716 . + Lady Wortley Montague , who refided fo long at Con ...
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