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Page v
... obfervations on human life , ex- preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHARAC → TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it ...
... obfervations on human life , ex- preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHARAC → TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it ...
Page vi
... obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are more read than the Orlando Furiofo , or even Dante . Are there fo many cordial ad- mirers of Spenfer and Milton , as of Hudibras ; if we ftrike out ...
... obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are more read than the Orlando Furiofo , or even Dante . Are there fo many cordial ad- mirers of Spenfer and Milton , as of Hudibras ; if we ftrike out ...
Page ix
... obfervations which we ourselves make ; lefs fo to " written wisdom , because another's . " Maxims are drawn from notions , " and thofe from guess . " What fhall we fay of this paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but ...
... obfervations which we ourselves make ; lefs fo to " written wisdom , because another's . " Maxims are drawn from notions , " and thofe from guess . " What fhall we fay of this paffage ? --- Why , that it is most excellent fenfe , but ...
Page 41
... obfervations : his defcriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to thofe , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was ...
... obfervations : his defcriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to thofe , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was ...
Page 47
... A fummer evening , for inftance , after a fhower , has been frequently defcribed : but never , that I can recollect , fo juftly . as THESE obfervations on Thomfon , which however would not have AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 47.
... A fummer evening , for inftance , after a fhower , has been frequently defcribed : but never , that I can recollect , fo juftly . as THESE obfervations on Thomfon , which however would not have AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 47.
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