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... furely he should not have omitted those natural and pathetic exclama- tions of Eurydice , the moment she was fnatched back , and which she uttered as she was gradually finking to the shades , espe- cially where the movingly takes her ...
... furely he should not have omitted those natural and pathetic exclama- tions of Eurydice , the moment she was fnatched back , and which she uttered as she was gradually finking to the shades , espe- cially where the movingly takes her ...
Page 176
... furely a very unclaffical inverfion ; for he ought to have called it the happy carefulness of Horace , rather than his careful happiness . I shall obferve by the way , that the copy of this author found fome years ago , bears many ...
... furely a very unclaffical inverfion ; for he ought to have called it the happy carefulness of Horace , rather than his careful happiness . I shall obferve by the way , that the copy of this author found fome years ago , bears many ...
Page 196
... furely this fpeech , confifting of as many lines as that of Dido to Æneas , was too long to be made on fuch an occafion ; when Chrift was brought be- fore the tribunal of Pilate , to be judged and condemned to death . The Poetics are ...
... furely this fpeech , confifting of as many lines as that of Dido to Æneas , was too long to be made on fuch an occafion ; when Chrift was brought be- fore the tribunal of Pilate , to be judged and condemned to death . The Poetics are ...
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