Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... never to be fwayed a fecond time . He has now an additional Imotive to virtue , a conviction derived from ex- perience , that happiness depends on regularity and order , order , and that a difregard to juftice or propriety 8 INTRODUCTION .
... never to be fwayed a fecond time . He has now an additional Imotive to virtue , a conviction derived from ex- perience , that happiness depends on regularity and order , order , and that a difregard to juftice or propriety 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... never fails to be punished with shame and remorfe * . Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reafon . Philofophers anciently were divided into fects they were either Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics ...
... never fails to be punished with shame and remorfe * . Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reafon . Philofophers anciently were divided into fects they were either Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics ...
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... never relishes . Writers , one would imagine , fhould , above all others , be referved upon that article , when they lie fo open to retalia- tion . The author of this treatise far from being confident of meriting no cenfure , entertains ...
... never relishes . Writers , one would imagine , fhould , above all others , be referved upon that article , when they lie fo open to retalia- tion . The author of this treatise far from being confident of meriting no cenfure , entertains ...
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... never returns to the queftion proposed in the beginning . In the Georgics of Virgil , though esteemed the moft finished work of that author , the parts are ill connected , and the tranfitions far from being sweet and easy . In the first ...
... never returns to the queftion proposed in the beginning . In the Georgics of Virgil , though esteemed the moft finished work of that author , the parts are ill connected , and the tranfitions far from being sweet and easy . In the first ...
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... never be graceful . I give for an ex- ample the descent of Æneas into hell , which em- ploys the fixth book of the Æneid . The reader is not prepared for this important event . No cause is affigned , that can make it appear necessary or ...
... never be graceful . I give for an ex- ample the descent of Æneas into hell , which em- ploys the fixth book of the Æneid . The reader is not prepared for this important event . No cause is affigned , that can make it appear necessary or ...
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