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Page 11
... produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo fuccefsfully versified in an Eclogue , that incontestably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps ...
... produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This is the cafe more particularly in the exalted prophefy of Ifaiah , which POPE has fo fuccefsfully versified in an Eclogue , that incontestably furpaffes the Pollio of Virgil : although perhaps ...
Page 26
... produced a paffage of Mil- ton which I thought fuperior to a fimilar one of POPE , I fhall , in order to preserve impartiality , produce another from Milton , in which I think him inferior to the last quoted paffage , except perhaps in ...
... produced a paffage of Mil- ton which I thought fuperior to a fimilar one of POPE , I fhall , in order to preserve impartiality , produce another from Milton , in which I think him inferior to the last quoted paffage , except perhaps in ...
Page 36
... produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fuffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the descriptive kind ; but the objects of its de- scription are great , and striking to the imagi- nation ; the false ...
... produce the Paradise Loft . This ode , which , by the way , is not fuffi- ciently read nor admired , is also of the descriptive kind ; but the objects of its de- scription are great , and striking to the imagi- nation ; the false ...
Page 71
... produce any examples , máy be verified from the following , among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing a long and very beautiful , but ill placed , hymn to Mars ; I fpeak of that which begins fo nobly , Ω πολύμοχθος ...
... produce any examples , máy be verified from the following , among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing a long and very beautiful , but ill placed , hymn to Mars ; I fpeak of that which begins fo nobly , Ω πολύμοχθος ...
Page 77
... produced , than to adopt , as some have done with small variations , his opinion , with- out acknowledging the debt . An apology would be neceffary for this digreffion , if it was not my profeffed design in this Essay , to expatiate ...
... produced , than to adopt , as some have done with small variations , his opinion , with- out acknowledging the debt . An apology would be neceffary for this digreffion , if it was not my profeffed design in this Essay , to expatiate ...
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