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Page 28
... poffibly be urged , that in defcribing the dreadful inhabitants of the portal of hell , Virgil has not always used * Ver . 497 . + Ver . 411. et feq . fuch such adjuncts and epithets as a painter or sta- tuary 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... poffibly be urged , that in defcribing the dreadful inhabitants of the portal of hell , Virgil has not always used * Ver . 497 . + Ver . 411. et feq . fuch such adjuncts and epithets as a painter or sta- tuary 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 50
... used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a tranflation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after fo great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft ...
... used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a tranflation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after fo great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft ...
Page 110
... used to say , he dared not touch any of the subjects which Sophocles had handled , and abftained from imitating them from his great veneration of the original . And that this was the reason why he rather imitated Euripides than Sopho ...
... used to say , he dared not touch any of the subjects which Sophocles had handled , and abftained from imitating them from his great veneration of the original . And that this was the reason why he rather imitated Euripides than Sopho ...
Page 111
... used to fay , " My Tragedy is finished . " I Now propose to make fome observations on , and illustrations of , fuch passages and precepts in this ESSAY , as , on account of their utility , novelty , or elegance , deferve particular ...
... used to fay , " My Tragedy is finished . " I Now propose to make fome observations on , and illustrations of , fuch passages and precepts in this ESSAY , as , on account of their utility , novelty , or elegance , deferve particular ...
Page 117
... used , and of the method of preferving it unmixed with any other idea , and not continuing it too far . " Our minds represent to us thofe tombs to which we are approaching ; where , though the brass and marble remain , yet the ...
... used , and of the method of preferving it unmixed with any other idea , and not continuing it too far . " Our minds represent to us thofe tombs to which we are approaching ; where , though the brass and marble remain , yet the ...
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