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Page iv
... most 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 ...
... most 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 v
Joseph Warton. the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and ufeful , is entirely out of the question : all I plead for , is , to have their several provinces kept di- ftinct from each other ; and to imprefs on the ...
Joseph Warton. the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and ufeful , is entirely out of the question : all I plead for , is , to have their several provinces kept di- ftinct from each other ; and to imprefs on the ...
Page ix
... most 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 ...
... most 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 ...
Page 11
... most elevated and fublime ftrokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo ...
... most elevated and fublime ftrokes of genuine poefy ; ftrokes , as much fuperior to any thing Heathenifm can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo ...
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... most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo mifery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of diftrefs and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
... most pleafing and agreeable objects , fo mifery and destruction are as forcibly delineated in the fame Ifaiah , by the circumftances of diftrefs and defolation , that were to attend the fall of that magnificent city , Babylon : and the ...
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