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Side 159
... actions of mankind , nor any subject that can be equally interesting . If the Proverbs of Solomon , his Ecclesiastes , & c . may be ranked as poetry , of which I think there is satisfactory evidence in Bishop Lowth's Lectures , then we ...
... actions of mankind , nor any subject that can be equally interesting . If the Proverbs of Solomon , his Ecclesiastes , & c . may be ranked as poetry , of which I think there is satisfactory evidence in Bishop Lowth's Lectures , then we ...
Side 160
... action , I must acknow- ledge myself indebted for them to the Bible and Horace . The 1st and 2d satire of the first book ; the 2d of the second book ; the 1st , 2d and 6th epistles , are incomparable specimens in this line of ...
... action , I must acknow- ledge myself indebted for them to the Bible and Horace . The 1st and 2d satire of the first book ; the 2d of the second book ; the 1st , 2d and 6th epistles , are incomparable specimens in this line of ...
Side 178
... actions of the hero , and afford a most admirable picture of the ab- surd controversies of the times . What an ad- mirable episode is that of Sidrophel , and where can a scene be found so witty and so comic as the dialogue between the ...
... actions of the hero , and afford a most admirable picture of the ab- surd controversies of the times . What an ad- mirable episode is that of Sidrophel , and where can a scene be found so witty and so comic as the dialogue between the ...
Side 190
... action , but disclaims the praise . " —Yet not of Virtue's open cause afraid , " Where public blessings ask her public aid , ' " She shines superior to the wretch's sneer , " And bold in conscious honour , knows no fear . " Hence rose ...
... action , but disclaims the praise . " —Yet not of Virtue's open cause afraid , " Where public blessings ask her public aid , ' " She shines superior to the wretch's sneer , " And bold in conscious honour , knows no fear . " Hence rose ...
Side 198
... action in question . There is a poem of Collins on the Death of Thomson , which , though not exactly in the measure which we have appropriated to this de- scription of poem , bears all the true character- istics of elegy - softness ...
... action in question . There is a poem of Collins on the Death of Thomson , which , though not exactly in the measure which we have appropriated to this de- scription of poem , bears all the true character- istics of elegy - softness ...
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