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... totally overlook his defects ; but when they are pointed out , it should not be malevolence , but candour . It has been thought that the critic has no business It ( 4 ) tion on the remains of a ftill greater poet : ...
... totally overlook his defects ; but when they are pointed out , it should not be malevolence , but candour . It has been thought that the critic has no business It ( 4 ) tion on the remains of a ftill greater poet : ...
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It has been thought that the critic has no business to undeceive the world , if they take defects for beauties : but I can- not be of this opinion ; he ought to efta- blish the fame of every author on truth and his real deferts , but ...
It has been thought that the critic has no business to undeceive the world , if they take defects for beauties : but I can- not be of this opinion ; he ought to efta- blish the fame of every author on truth and his real deferts , but ...
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... thoughts . If he means me- taphyfical or mathematical writers , it may perhaps be the cafe . His words are , - -Les ouvrages de vivacité , de gaiteé , & de ce qu'on appelle commu- ---- nément There is nothing which oftener mif- leads ...
... thoughts . If he means me- taphyfical or mathematical writers , it may perhaps be the cafe . His words are , - -Les ouvrages de vivacité , de gaiteé , & de ce qu'on appelle commu- ---- nément There is nothing which oftener mif- leads ...
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at beauties , to which Guido's foft and tranquil genius had no thoughts of af- piring . Criticifm , like most other branches of literature , may be of too luxuriant a growth , when a certain critical fpirit ex- pands itself among all ...
at beauties , to which Guido's foft and tranquil genius had no thoughts of af- piring . Criticifm , like most other branches of literature , may be of too luxuriant a growth , when a certain critical fpirit ex- pands itself among all ...
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... thought ! to live in after - times ) With fuch a trifler's name her pages blot : Known be the character , the thing forgot ; Let it , to disappoint each future aim , Live without fex , and die without a name ! Knows any one fo well ...
... thought ! to live in after - times ) With fuch a trifler's name her pages blot : Known be the character , the thing forgot ; Let it , to disappoint each future aim , Live without fex , and die without a name ! Knows any one fo well ...
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Addiſon admirable Alcamenes Apelles becauſe bring certain taunts compofition criticifm itſelf criticiſms appeared critics is reaſonable critique elle-meme defcription deferves elegy employ themſelves fame fatirized favourite's reputa fays feeing the latent feems fentiments feveral fhaft of ridicule fhall fhould fince fome fore his criticiſms fpirit ftrokes fubject fuch proper objects genius greateſt haughty infolence hiftorian hiftory himſelf infolence of decifion injudicious and malevolent itfelf as lightly itſelf is abfurd Journal des Sçavans judgments are humour juft liger wrote modeſty moft Monody moſt muſt n'eft qu'un art nions number of thoſe paffage paffions Phidias philofophical pieces pleaſure in feeing plufieurs menfonges poem poet poetry been obliged praiſe prefent publiſhed racter raiſe his favourite's reafon reffemble le mieux ridicule of injudicious taunts and reflections thefe themſelves in pointing theſe thofe thoſe who bring Tibullus tion trifling critics ture extremely uſeful verfification Virgil Virgil's tomb world with diffidence Young here mentions
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Page 49 - Here let me bend, great Dryden, at thy shrine, Thou dearest name to all the tuneful nine. What if some dull lines in cold order creep, And with his theme the poet seems to sleep, Still, when his subject rises proud to view, With equal strength the Poet rises too. With strong invention, noblest vigour fraught, Thought still springs up and rises out of thought ; Numbers ennobling numbers in their...
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