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Page iv
... excellent one of the art , nois We do not , it should feem fuffici E ently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense ...
... excellent one of the art , nois We do not , it should feem fuffici E ently attend to the difference there is , betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of wit , and men of fense ...
Page ix
... excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Męcenas ” of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any any process ...
... excellent fenfe , but just as poetical as the " Qui fit Męcenas ” of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any any process ...
Page x
... excellent Quintilian remarks of Lyfias . And because I am perhaps un- willing to fpeak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as ex- actly characterizes POPE as it does his model ...
... excellent Quintilian remarks of Lyfias . And because I am perhaps un- willing to fpeak out in plain English , I will adopt the following paffage of Voltaire , which , in my opinion , as ex- actly characterizes POPE as it does his model ...
Page 33
... excellent example extant , of the beauty here intended , in the third Georgic of Virgil . The poet having mournfully defcribed a fteer ftruck with a peftilence , and falling down dead in the middle of his work , artfully reminds us of ...
... excellent example extant , of the beauty here intended , in the third Georgic of Virgil . The poet having mournfully defcribed a fteer ftruck with a peftilence , and falling down dead in the middle of his work , artfully reminds us of ...
Page 63
... excellent on the whole , is not free from one or two blemishes of this fort , particularly in the air , “ With " ravished ears , & c . " THE moderns have perhaps practised no fpecies of poetry with fo little fuccefs , and with fuch ...
... excellent on the whole , is not free from one or two blemishes of this fort , particularly in the air , “ With " ravished ears , & c . " THE moderns have perhaps practised no fpecies of poetry with fo little fuccefs , and with fuch ...
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