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... occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we conftantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age . POPE himself informs us , in a note , that he ...
... occafion . We can never completely relish , or adequately un- derstand any author , efpecially any Ancient , except we conftantly keep in our eye his climate , his country , and his age . POPE himself informs us , in a note , that he ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 fuperiour to Mr. Dyer in this particular . After painting a landfchape very extenfive and diverfified , he adds ; Thus is ...
Joseph Warton. every object so as it may give occafion for fome obfervation on human life . Denham himself is not fuperiour to Mr. Dyer in this particular . After painting a landfchape very extenfive and diverfified , he adds ; Thus is ...
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... occafion in which they were for- merly used . Though the diction of the SEA- SONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and sometimes turgid and obscure , and though in many inftances , the numbers are not fufficiently diverfified by ...
... occafion in which they were for- merly used . Though the diction of the SEA- SONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and sometimes turgid and obscure , and though in many inftances , the numbers are not fufficiently diverfified by ...
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... occafion , and might be inferted with equal propriety in twenty other tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , though he does not himself produce any examples , máy be verified from the following , among many others . In the Phoenicians ...
... occafion , and might be inferted with equal propriety in twenty other tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , though he does not himself produce any examples , máy be verified from the following , among many others . In the Phoenicians ...
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