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Page 68
... , Mr. GRAY's odes had not been published : it is not exaggeration to fay , they are the most exquifite pieces of true poetry in our language . Pindaric Pindaric variety to the numbers , that is wanting not 68 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... , Mr. GRAY's odes had not been published : it is not exaggeration to fay , they are the most exquifite pieces of true poetry in our language . Pindaric Pindaric variety to the numbers , that is wanting not 68 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 69
Joseph Warton. Pindaric variety to the numbers , that is wanting not only to the best French and Italian , but even to the best Latin odes . In the pieces here commended , the figures are ftrong , and the tranfitions bold , and there is ...
Joseph Warton. Pindaric variety to the numbers , that is wanting not only to the best French and Italian , but even to the best Latin odes . In the pieces here commended , the figures are ftrong , and the tranfitions bold , and there is ...
Page 88
... Pindaric strains , Flatman , who Cowley imitates with pains , And rides a jaded mufe , whipt , with loofe reins . I AM fenfible of the difficulty of distin- guishing resemblances I AM 88 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS the following stanza is ...
... Pindaric strains , Flatman , who Cowley imitates with pains , And rides a jaded mufe , whipt , with loofe reins . I AM fenfible of the difficulty of distin- guishing resemblances I AM 88 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS the following stanza is ...
Page 132
... Pindar , and a fubject of Hiero to whom Pindar wrote , had adopted in his beautiful poem . Homer and the Greek tragedians have been like- wife cenfured , the former for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the ...
... Pindar , and a fubject of Hiero to whom Pindar wrote , had adopted in his beautiful poem . Homer and the Greek tragedians have been like- wife cenfured , the former for protracting the Iliad after the death of Hector ; and the ...
Page 150
... Pindar , Thomson in the Castle of In- dolence , and the author of an elegant Ode TO SUMMER , published in a Mifcellany en- titled the UNION ‡ . * Inft . Orat . lib . vii . c . 3 . Edinburgh , 1753 , 12mo . p . 81 . + Ver . 350 . 24. A ...
... Pindar , Thomson in the Castle of In- dolence , and the author of an elegant Ode TO SUMMER , published in a Mifcellany en- titled the UNION ‡ . * Inft . Orat . lib . vii . c . 3 . Edinburgh , 1753 , 12mo . p . 81 . + Ver . 350 . 24. A ...
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