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Page 41
... observations : his descriptions have therefore a diftinctnefs and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was ...
... observations : his descriptions have therefore a diftinctnefs and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked abroad on the objects themselves . Thomson was ...
Page 64
... literæ abfonam et ipfam S fubjiciendo . " Apply these observations with proper alterations to the English tongue . Quintil . 1. xii . c . 1ɔ . † Odys . iv . 565 . Or . Or as , in the tender Bion , Αιαζω 64 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... literæ abfonam et ipfam S fubjiciendo . " Apply these observations with proper alterations to the English tongue . Quintil . 1. xii . c . 1ɔ . † Odys . iv . 565 . Or . Or as , in the tender Bion , Αιαζω 64 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 70
... observation of dra- matic rules without genius is of no effect . These choruses are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not chargeable with the fault , which Ariftotle imputes to many of Euripides , that they are foreign and ...
... observation of dra- matic rules without genius is of no effect . These choruses are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not chargeable with the fault , which Ariftotle imputes to many of Euripides , that they are foreign and ...
Page 96
... . In the Underwood . + Dunciad . ↑ See OBSERVATIONS on the FAERIE QUEEN of Spenfer , by Thomas Warton , sect . vii . p . 166 ... I SHOULD I SHOULD be fenfibly touched at the in- jurious imputation · 96 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... . In the Underwood . + Dunciad . ↑ See OBSERVATIONS on the FAERIE QUEEN of Spenfer , by Thomas Warton , sect . vii . p . 166 ... I SHOULD I SHOULD be fenfibly touched at the in- jurious imputation · 96 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 101
... observations in this effay are fome of them . uncommon : " there is , I fear , a small mix- ture of ill - nature in these words ; for this ESSAY , tho ' on a beaten subject , abounds in many new remarks , and original rules , as well as ...
... observations in this effay are fome of them . uncommon : " there is , I fear , a small mix- ture of ill - nature in these words ; for this ESSAY , tho ' on a beaten subject , abounds in many new remarks , and original rules , as well as ...
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