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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... against fome dangers , we are expofed to others we cannot forefee : he ends with dif playing the power of mufic . The parts of ode 16. lib . 2 . are fo loosely connected as to disfigure a poem oth- erwife extremely beautiful . The 1ft ...
... against fome dangers , we are expofed to others we cannot forefee : he ends with dif playing the power of mufic . The parts of ode 16. lib . 2 . are fo loosely connected as to disfigure a poem oth- erwife extremely beautiful . The 1ft ...
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... against avarice , which he purfues till the line 108. there he makes an apology for wandering , and promises to re- turn to his fubject ; but avarice having got poffeffion of his mind , he follows out that theme to the end , and never ...
... against avarice , which he purfues till the line 108. there he makes an apology for wandering , and promises to re- turn to his fubject ; but avarice having got poffeffion of his mind , he follows out that theme to the end , and never ...
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... against that elaborate defcription of Fame in the Eneid any other book of that heroic poem , or of any heroic poem , has as good a title to that defcrip- tion as the book where it is placed . * In a natural landscape we every day ...
... against that elaborate defcription of Fame in the Eneid any other book of that heroic poem , or of any heroic poem , has as good a title to that defcrip- tion as the book where it is placed . * In a natural landscape we every day ...
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... ad- mitted , that no emotion or paffion ever starts up in the mind without a caufe : if I love a perfon , it is for good qualities qualities or good offices : if I have refentment against PART . I , 37 Emotions and Paffions .
... ad- mitted , that no emotion or paffion ever starts up in the mind without a caufe : if I love a perfon , it is for good qualities qualities or good offices : if I have refentment against PART . I , 37 Emotions and Paffions .
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... against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me : and I cannot pity any one who is under no diftrefs of body nor of mind . The circumstances now mentioned , if they raise an emotion or paffion , cannot be entirely indifferent ...
... against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me : and I cannot pity any one who is under no diftrefs of body nor of mind . The circumstances now mentioned , if they raise an emotion or paffion , cannot be entirely indifferent ...
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