Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 290
... person of del icacy , difguft will be the prevailing emotion : -Strophades Graio ftant nomine dictæ Infulæ Ionio in magno : quas dira Celano , Harpyiæque colunt alix : Phineia poftquam Claufa domus , menfafque metu liquere priores ...
... person of del icacy , difguft will be the prevailing emotion : -Strophades Graio ftant nomine dictæ Infulæ Ionio in magno : quas dira Celano , Harpyiæque colunt alix : Phineia poftquam Claufa domus , menfafque metu liquere priores ...
Page 336
... person- age introduced during an act , be linked to thofe in poffeffion of the ftage , fo as to join all in one action . Thefe things follow from the very conception of an act , which admits not the flightest interruption : the moment ...
... person- age introduced during an act , be linked to thofe in poffeffion of the ftage , fo as to join all in one action . Thefe things follow from the very conception of an act , which admits not the flightest interruption : the moment ...
Page 386
... persons talking the fame language with the reft of mankind , pronounce in favour of the more elegant pleasures , and they invariably approve those who have a more refined tafte , being afhamed of their own own as low and fenfual . It is ...
... persons talking the fame language with the reft of mankind , pronounce in favour of the more elegant pleasures , and they invariably approve those who have a more refined tafte , being afhamed of their own own as low and fenfual . It is ...
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