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Page 27
... best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly conftitutes true poetry . Anhiftorian or prose- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets ...
... best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly conftitutes true poetry . Anhiftorian or prose- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets ...
Page 45
... best of my remembrance hath escaped even the na- tural Theocritus . Nor do I recollect that any poet hath been ftruck with the murmurs of the numberless infects , that fwarm abroad at the noon of a fummer's day ; as attendants of the ...
... best of my remembrance hath escaped even the na- tural Theocritus . Nor do I recollect that any poet hath been ftruck with the murmurs of the numberless infects , that fwarm abroad at the noon of a fummer's day ; as attendants of the ...
Page 69
... best French and Italian , but even to the best Latin odes . In the pieces here commended , the figures are ftrong , and the tranfitions bold , and there is a juft mixture of fentiment and imagery ; and particularly , they are animated ...
... best French and Italian , but even to the best Latin odes . In the pieces here commended , the figures are ftrong , and the tranfitions bold , and there is a juft mixture of fentiment and imagery ; and particularly , they are animated ...
Page 81
... best part of that book , as they were defigned and engraved by artists of note . At twelve , he retired with his father into Windfor - Foreft ; and it was there he first perufed the writings of Waller , of Spenser , and of Dryden ...
... best part of that book , as they were defigned and engraved by artists of note . At twelve , he retired with his father into Windfor - Foreft ; and it was there he first perufed the writings of Waller , of Spenser , and of Dryden ...
Page 91
... best thoughts ; " Per- " eant qui ante nos , noftra dixerunt * . " MENAGE makes thefe obfervations on ac- cafion of a paffage in the Poetics of Vida , * Anti - Baillet , tom . ii . pag . 207 . intend- intended to justify borrowing the ...
... best thoughts ; " Per- " eant qui ante nos , noftra dixerunt * . " MENAGE makes thefe obfervations on ac- cafion of a paffage in the Poetics of Vida , * Anti - Baillet , tom . ii . pag . 207 . intend- intended to justify borrowing the ...
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