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... the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and prospects is apt to give the mind a * Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and contemplations 30 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and prospects is apt to give the mind a * Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and contemplations 30 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates , after his manner , the difficulty and laboriousness of the work . every object so as it may give occafion for fome every 34 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Quid labor aut benefacta juvant? Quid vomere terras ...
... the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates , after his manner , the difficulty and laboriousness of the work . every object so as it may give occafion for fome every 34 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Quid labor aut benefacta juvant? Quid vomere terras ...
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Joseph Warton. every object so as it may give occafion for fome obfervation on human life . Denham himself is not ... gives him an opportunity for fliding into the fol- lowing moralities : * How close and fmall the hedges lie ! What ...
Joseph Warton. every object so as it may give occafion for fome obfervation on human life . Denham himself is not ... gives him an opportunity for fliding into the fol- lowing moralities : * How close and fmall the hedges lie ! What ...
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... gives fome inftances that are curious and worth atten- tion . " Quid quod pleraque nos illa quafi mugiente literâ clu- dimus M , quâ nullum Græcè verbum cadit ? At illi N jucun- dam et in fine præcipuè quafi tinnientem , illius leco ...
... gives fome inftances that are curious and worth atten- tion . " Quid quod pleraque nos illa quafi mugiente literâ clu- dimus M , quâ nullum Græcè verbum cadit ? At illi N jucun- dam et in fine præcipuè quafi tinnientem , illius leco ...
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... give a truly * When this paragraph was written , Mr. GRAY's odes had not been published : it is not exaggeration to fay , they are the most exquifite pieces of true poetry in our language , Pindaric Pindaric variety to the numbers ...
... give a truly * When this paragraph was written , Mr. GRAY's odes had not been published : it is not exaggeration to fay , they are the most exquifite pieces of true poetry in our language , Pindaric Pindaric variety to the numbers ...
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