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Page 43
... whole , from the numberless ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its beauties are not of a tranfitory kind , as depending on par- ticular customs and manners ...
... whole , from the numberless ftrokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language , and which , as its beauties are not of a tranfitory kind , as depending on par- ticular customs and manners ...
Page 179
... whole earth , to take such another step . " He should have fhewn why the speech of Phaeton to his fon , in a fragment of Euripides , was fo lively and picturefque : inftead of which he ardently exclaims , " would not you say , that the ...
... whole earth , to take such another step . " He should have fhewn why the speech of Phaeton to his fon , in a fragment of Euripides , was fo lively and picturefque : inftead of which he ardently exclaims , " would not you say , that the ...
Page 326
... whole poem being of a strain rather fuperiour to the generality of Roman poefy , and being alfo fo much above the tender and elegant genius of Catullus , whose name it bears , inclines me to think it a tranflation from fome Gre cian ...
... whole poem being of a strain rather fuperiour to the generality of Roman poefy , and being alfo fo much above the tender and elegant genius of Catullus , whose name it bears , inclines me to think it a tranflation from fome Gre cian ...
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