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... original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity ... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his para- phrast , who has many other plays ...
... original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity ... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his para- phrast , who has many other plays ...
Page 388
... original design . There is this want in most descriptive poems , because as the scenes , which they must exhibit successively , are all subsisting at the same time , the order in which they are shown must by necessity be arbitrary , and ...
... original design . There is this want in most descriptive poems , because as the scenes , which they must exhibit successively , are all subsisting at the same time , the order in which they are shown must by necessity be arbitrary , and ...
Page 403
... original , as they are decried for the badness of their translations . Chapman pretends to have restored the genuine sense of the author , from the mistakes of all former explainers , in several hundred places ; and the Cambridge ...
... original , as they are decried for the badness of their translations . Chapman pretends to have restored the genuine sense of the author , from the mistakes of all former explainers , in several hundred places ; and the Cambridge ...
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