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Page viii
... poetical or not ; which is , to drop entirely the measures and numbers , and transpose and invert the order of the words : and in this unadorned manner to pe- rufe 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 transpose and invert the order of the words : and in this unadorned manner to pe- rufe the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your ...
Page 62
... poetical perionifications ; Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus roufes from his bed , Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , Liftning Envy drops her snakes ; Inteftine war no more our paffions wage , And giddy factions hear away their rage ...
... poetical perionifications ; Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus roufes from his bed , Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , Liftning Envy drops her snakes ; Inteftine war no more our paffions wage , And giddy factions hear away their rage ...
Page 177
... poetical character . No author ever adorned a fcientifical treatise with so many beautiful metaphors . Quin- tilian was found in the bottom of a tower of the monastery of St. Gal , by Poggius ; as appears by one of his letters dated ...
... poetical character . No author ever adorned a fcientifical treatise with so many beautiful metaphors . Quin- tilian was found in the bottom of a tower of the monastery of St. Gal , by Poggius ; as appears by one of his letters dated ...
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