An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to WritingC. Rivington, 1737 - 271 psl. |
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... Poet , regarded the Value , not Number of his Lines ; and never thought too much Pains could be bestowed on a Poem , that he might reasonably ex- pect would be the Wonder of all Ages , and laft out the whole Duration of Time ...
... Poet , regarded the Value , not Number of his Lines ; and never thought too much Pains could be bestowed on a Poem , that he might reasonably ex- pect would be the Wonder of all Ages , and laft out the whole Duration of Time ...
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... Poet , in the Poet's own Way and Excellency ; but excels all others in Force and Comprehenfion of Ge- nius , Elevation of Fancy , and im- menfe Copiousness of Invention . Such a Sovereignty of Genius reigns all over his Works , that the ...
... Poet , in the Poet's own Way and Excellency ; but excels all others in Force and Comprehenfion of Ge- nius , Elevation of Fancy , and im- menfe Copiousness of Invention . Such a Sovereignty of Genius reigns all over his Works , that the ...
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... Poet's Reputation . The Reason why Plato would not let Ho mer's Poems be in the Hands of the Subjects of that ... Poets ; and ftudiously imitates his figu- rative and mystical Way of Writing . Tho ' he forbad his Works to be read in ...
... Poet's Reputation . The Reason why Plato would not let Ho mer's Poems be in the Hands of the Subjects of that ... Poets ; and ftudiously imitates his figu- rative and mystical Way of Writing . Tho ' he forbad his Works to be read in ...
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... Poets . Not to mention the Propriety and Subli- mity of his Thought , the manly Ele- gance , and majeftic Concifeness of his Expreffion ; he is very admirable in the judicious and most agreeable Va- riety of his Numbers . In that Excel ...
... Poets . Not to mention the Propriety and Subli- mity of his Thought , the manly Ele- gance , and majeftic Concifeness of his Expreffion ; he is very admirable in the judicious and most agreeable Va- riety of his Numbers . In that Excel ...
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... Poet can be fo dull , what Wit fo barren , as to want Materials for an Hymn to his Honour ? In the fourth Verse of the eleventh Epigram of Theocritus , there wanted a little Point in the Word vorns , which took off all the Sprightlinefs ...
... Poet can be fo dull , what Wit fo barren , as to want Materials for an Hymn to his Honour ? In the fourth Verse of the eleventh Epigram of Theocritus , there wanted a little Point in the Word vorns , which took off all the Sprightlinefs ...
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