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... critic be Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame , if I should fay , we have lately feen two or three lyric pieces , fuperiour to any he has * left us ; I mean an Ode on Lyric Poetry , and another to lord Huntingdon , by Dr ...
... critic be Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame , if I should fay , we have lately feen two or three lyric pieces , fuperiour to any he has * left us ; I mean an Ode on Lyric Poetry , and another to lord Huntingdon , by Dr ...
Page 74
... critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . That the great Gre- cian mafters retained it only out of respect to its antiquity , and from no intrinfic valu ...
... critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . That the great Gre- cian mafters retained it only out of respect to its antiquity , and from no intrinfic valu ...
Page 77
... critic , whose work is one of the most valuable that his elegant nation hath produced , than to adopt , as some have done with small variations , his opinion , with- out acknowledging the debt . An apology would be neceffary for this ...
... critic , whose work is one of the most valuable that his elegant nation hath produced , than to adopt , as some have done with small variations , his opinion , with- out acknowledging the debt . An apology would be neceffary for this ...
Page 89
... critic has urged , that a want of feeming originality arifes frequently , not from a barrennefs and timidity of genius , but from invincible neceffity , and the nature of things that the works of those who pro- fess an art , whofe ...
... critic has urged , that a want of feeming originality arifes frequently , not from a barrennefs and timidity of genius , but from invincible neceffity , and the nature of things that the works of those who pro- fess an art , whofe ...
Page 92
... critic intends merely to gratify curiofity , and not to indulge envy , malignity , and a petulant defire of dethron- Lib . iii . v . 255 . + Dryden , fays prettily of Ben . Jonfon's many imitations of the ancients , " You track him ...
... critic intends merely to gratify curiofity , and not to indulge envy , malignity , and a petulant defire of dethron- Lib . iii . v . 255 . + Dryden , fays prettily of Ben . Jonfon's many imitations of the ancients , " You track him ...
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