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Page 32
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the pleni- tude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the pleni- tude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
Page 338
... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . " Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . " Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
Page 351
... beauties placed in admirable order by each other ; and there was a predominant fancy and spirit of his own infused , superior to what some draw off from the ancients , or from poesies here and there culled out of the moderns , by a ...
... beauties placed in admirable order by each other ; and there was a predominant fancy and spirit of his own infused , superior to what some draw off from the ancients , or from poesies here and there culled out of the moderns , by a ...
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