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Page vii
... VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS―― are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious A 4 3 judicious than the method he pre- fcribes , of DEDICATION . vii.
... VERSUM DIXERIS ESSE SATIS―― are lines , often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious A 4 3 judicious than the method he pre- fcribes , of DEDICATION . vii.
Page viii
... lines ; " Yes , you defpife " the man that is confined to books , " who rails at human kind from bis G " Study ; tho what he learns , he speaks ; and may perhaps advance fome gene- ❝oral maxims , or may be right by ❝ chance ...
... lines ; " Yes , you defpife " the man that is confined to books , " who rails at human kind from bis G " Study ; tho what he learns , he speaks ; and may perhaps advance fome gene- ❝oral maxims , or may be right by ❝ chance ...
Page ix
... ” 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 of critical chymistry , you can lower and DEDICATION . ix.
... ” 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 of critical chymistry , you can lower and DEDICATION . ix.
Page 12
... lines , which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious ad- dition of circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the ...
... lines , which have too much prettiness , and too modern an air . The judicious ad- dition of circumstances and adjuncts is what renders poefy a more lively imitation of nature than profe . POPE has been happy in introducing the ...
Page 20
... lines . are incomparably good * , is not so full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE digreffion that describes the demoli- tion of the thirty villages by William the Conqueror , is well imagined ...
... lines . are incomparably good * , is not so full , fo animated , and fo circumftantiated , as that of Somerville . THE digreffion that describes the demoli- tion of the thirty villages by William the Conqueror , is well imagined ...
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