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... Poetry . - His Art of Rhetoric . -Demetrius Phalereus on Elocution . - Longinus.- Lord Kames's plan original , but the way paved by former writers . - Dr Hutcheson's Essay on Beauty and Virtue . - Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination ...
... Poetry . - His Art of Rhetoric . -Demetrius Phalereus on Elocution . - Longinus.- Lord Kames's plan original , but the way paved by former writers . - Dr Hutcheson's Essay on Beauty and Virtue . - Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination ...
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... poetry , whom Britain had produced , in comparison with the continental king- doms ; endeavoured to vindicate his native * Arthur Johnston was born in 1587 , five years after the death of Buchanan , whom he had the courage to emulate as ...
... poetry , whom Britain had produced , in comparison with the continental king- doms ; endeavoured to vindicate his native * Arthur Johnston was born in 1587 , five years after the death of Buchanan , whom he had the courage to emulate as ...
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... Poet , would have met with no quarter from the zeal of the Critic , equally ardent on the opposite side of the question , and there would have been a perpetual war be- twixt the author and his commentator . storation , as those of their ...
... Poet , would have met with no quarter from the zeal of the Critic , equally ardent on the opposite side of the question , and there would have been a perpetual war be- twixt the author and his commentator . storation , as those of their ...
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... poetry and elo quence , and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner , and such as is best fitted to please the imagina- * tion and engage the affections . They select the most strik " ing observations and instances from ...
... poetry and elo quence , and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner , and such as is best fitted to please the imagina- * tion and engage the affections . They select the most strik " ing observations and instances from ...
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... poetry , in the manner which has been successfully practised among the French by Chapelle and Bachaumont , and in a few in- stances by Voltaire ; and which seems to have been adopted in imitation of the mixed composition of Petronius ...
... poetry , in the manner which has been successfully practised among the French by Chapelle and Bachaumont , and in a few in- stances by Voltaire ; and which seems to have been adopted in imitation of the mixed composition of Petronius ...
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