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Page vi
... taste and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are more read than the Orlando Furiofo , or even Dante . Are there fo many cordial ad- mirers of Spenfer and Milton , as of ...
... taste and judge of , obfervations on familiar life , and the manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are more read than the Orlando Furiofo , or even Dante . Are there fo many cordial ad- mirers of Spenfer and Milton , as of ...
Page xii
... taste , and lively fancy in describing familiar life , tho ' not the higher fcenes of poetry . Here may be numbered , BUTler , SWIFT , ROCHESTER , DONNE , Dorset , OLDHAM . In the fourth clafs , the mere verfifiers , however fmooth and ...
... taste , and lively fancy in describing familiar life , tho ' not the higher fcenes of poetry . Here may be numbered , BUTler , SWIFT , ROCHESTER , DONNE , Dorset , OLDHAM . In the fourth clafs , the mere verfifiers , however fmooth and ...
Page 52
... taste who was refolved to have it executed , if an artist could have been found , on one fide of his falloon . In which cafe , faid he , the painter has nothing to do , but to fub- ftitute colours for words , the defign being finifhed ...
... taste who was refolved to have it executed , if an artist could have been found , on one fide of his falloon . In which cafe , faid he , the painter has nothing to do , but to fub- ftitute colours for words , the defign being finifhed ...
Page 112
... taste as feldom is the critic's fhare † . LA BRUYERE fays very fenfibly , I will allow the good writers are fcarce enough ; Mifcell . Effay iv . part 2 . † Ver . 12 . but but then , I afk , where are the people 112 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... taste as feldom is the critic's fhare † . LA BRUYERE fays very fenfibly , I will allow the good writers are fcarce enough ; Mifcell . Effay iv . part 2 . † Ver . 12 . but but then , I afk , where are the people 112 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 114
... taste and sentiment , handled not themselves either the pencil or the chiffel , nor Longinus and Dionyfius the harp . But altho ' fuch as have actually performed no- thing in the art itself , may not , on that ac- count , be totally ...
... taste and sentiment , handled not themselves either the pencil or the chiffel , nor Longinus and Dionyfius the harp . But altho ' fuch as have actually performed no- thing in the art itself , may not , on that ac- count , be totally ...
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