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Page 18
... whole . Nor is any thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of this ode with abfolute beauty ; nor can the Greek or Roman poefy produce produce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , 5 ת ' 18 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS WHAT images ...
... whole . Nor is any thing wanting to crown and complete the fublimity of this ode with abfolute beauty ; nor can the Greek or Roman poefy produce produce any thing that is fimilar , or fecond , 5 ת ' 18 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS WHAT images ...
Page 196
... whole history of our Saviour's life , by putting it into the mouth of St. Jofeph and St. John , who re- late it to Pilate . But furely this fpeech , confifting of as many lines as that of Dido to Æneas , was too long to be made on fuch ...
... whole history of our Saviour's life , by putting it into the mouth of St. Jofeph and St. John , who re- late it to Pilate . But furely this fpeech , confifting of as many lines as that of Dido to Æneas , was too long to be made on fuch ...
Page 326
... whole poem being of a strain rather fuperiour to the generality of Roman poefy , and being also so much above the tender and elegant genius of Catullus , whofe name it bears , inclines me to think it a translation from fome Gre- cian ...
... whole poem being of a strain rather fuperiour to the generality of Roman poefy , and being also so much above the tender and elegant genius of Catullus , whofe name it bears , inclines me to think it a translation from fome Gre- cian ...
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