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Page 28
... poffibly be urged , that in defcribing the dreadful inhabitants of the portal of hell , Virgil has not always used • Ver . 497- + Ver . 411. et feq . fuch fuch adjuncts and epithets as a painter or sta- tuary 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... poffibly be urged , that in defcribing the dreadful inhabitants of the portal of hell , Virgil has not always used • Ver . 497- + Ver . 411. et feq . fuch fuch adjuncts and epithets as a painter or sta- tuary 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 42
... used . Though the diction of the SEA- SONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and fometimės turgid and obfcure , and though in many inftances , the numbers . are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on ...
... used . Though the diction of the SEA- SONS is fometimes harsh and inharmonious , and fometimės turgid and obfcure , and though in many inftances , the numbers . are not fufficiently diverfified by different pauses , yet is this poem on ...
Page 50
... used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a translation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after so great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft ...
... used to declare , that if Dryden had finished a translation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after so great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft ...
Page 110
... used to say , he dared not touch any of the subjects which Sophocles had handled , and abstained from imitating them from his great veneration of the original . And that this was the reason why he rather imitated Euripides than Sopho ...
... used to say , he dared not touch any of the subjects which Sophocles had handled , and abstained from imitating them from his great veneration of the original . And that this was the reason why he rather imitated Euripides than Sopho ...
Page 111
... used to say , My Tragedy is finished . " " " I Now propose to make some observations on , and illustrations of , such paffages and precepts in this ESSAY , as , on account of " their utility , novelty , or elegance , deferved particular ...
... used to say , My Tragedy is finished . " " " I Now propose to make some observations on , and illustrations of , such paffages and precepts in this ESSAY , as , on account of " their utility , novelty , or elegance , deferved particular ...
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