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Page v
... poetical , than the CHARAC → TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINA ? acer fpiritus ac vis , " and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which ...
... poetical , than the CHARAC → TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINA ? acer fpiritus ac vis , " and that TION , alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which ...
Page viii
... poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this un- adorned manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your ...
... poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and tranfpofe and invert the order of the words : and in this un- adorned manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your ...
Page ix
... poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas ” 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 ...
... poetical as the " Qui fit Mæcenas ” 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 ...
Page xi
... class should be ranked , fuch as poffeffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . I At At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , DEDICATION . xi.
... class should be ranked , fuch as poffeffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . I At At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , DEDICATION . xi.
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Joseph Warton. } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention ...
Joseph Warton. } ECLOGUES : The fubject would have been fruitful of the most poetical imagery ; and , if properly executed , would have rescued the author from the accufation here urged , of having written Eclogues without invention ...
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