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Page 44
... defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courfes are feldom accu- rately marked . Examine the exactness of the enfuing defcription , and confider what a per- fect idea it ...
... defcriptions of rivers , which are generally faid only to wind and to murmur , while their qualities and courfes are feldom accu- rately marked . Examine the exactness of the enfuing defcription , and confider what a per- fect idea it ...
Page 51
... defcription of a fubject very trite , Orpheus drawing the beafts about him . POPE fhewed his fuperior judgment in taking no notice of this old story , and selecting a more new , as well as more striking incident , in the life of Orpheus ...
... defcription of a fubject very trite , Orpheus drawing the beafts about him . POPE fhewed his fuperior judgment in taking no notice of this old story , and selecting a more new , as well as more striking incident , in the life of Orpheus ...
Page 54
... defcription of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell , are elegantly tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily adapted to the subject in queftion ...
... defcription of the infernal regions is well imagined , and the effects of the musician's lyre on the inhabitants of hell , are elegantly tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily adapted to the subject in queftion ...
Page 73
... defcription of his being left in this defolate island , v . 280. His lamentation for the loss of his bow , v . 1140. and also 1185. and his last adieu to the island , 1508 . One may here observe by the way , that the acients thought ...
... defcription of his being left in this defolate island , v . 280. His lamentation for the loss of his bow , v . 1140. and also 1185. and his last adieu to the island , 1508 . One may here observe by the way , that the acients thought ...
Page 170
... defcription , in the Art of Poetry * . La Bruyere , Rochefoucault , and Montaigne himself , are not to be com- pared to him in this refpect . No fucceeding writer on eloquence , not even Tully , has added any thing new or important on ...
... defcription , in the Art of Poetry * . La Bruyere , Rochefoucault , and Montaigne himself , are not to be com- pared to him in this refpect . No fucceeding writer on eloquence , not even Tully , has added any thing new or important on ...
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