Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... most elegant expreffions ex- panded into an harmonious compofition . There is fomething fo extremely plea- fang in the harmony of modulated pe- riods , that we are at first reading preju- diced in favour of a book in which we find it ...
... most elegant expreffions ex- panded into an harmonious compofition . There is fomething fo extremely plea- fang in the harmony of modulated pe- riods , that we are at first reading preju- diced in favour of a book in which we find it ...
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... most har- monious language . It is not only by the help of a new ftyle that writers think to deceive the world ; they attempt it alfo by fetting an old thought in a new light , varying fome circumstances of it , and applying it in a ...
... most har- monious language . It is not only by the help of a new ftyle that writers think to deceive the world ; they attempt it alfo by fetting an old thought in a new light , varying fome circumstances of it , and applying it in a ...
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... most likely to want inftruction may to think , by being pleafed . be tempted Would the orations of Demofthenes have had fo aftonishing an event , if the thoughts only . had been excellent ? No ; it was the wonderful enthusiasm of his ...
... most likely to want inftruction may to think , by being pleafed . be tempted Would the orations of Demofthenes have had fo aftonishing an event , if the thoughts only . had been excellent ? No ; it was the wonderful enthusiasm of his ...
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... most ex- act obfervance of the established rules of criticism ; the verfification may be har- monious , and the language chafte ; but if the poetic fire , the vivida vis animi , or , as Longinus * calls it , the rapid force of lightning ...
... most ex- act obfervance of the established rules of criticism ; the verfification may be har- monious , and the language chafte ; but if the poetic fire , the vivida vis animi , or , as Longinus * calls it , the rapid force of lightning ...
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... most eminent french poets , who honoured the reign of Lewis XIV . were by birth and education remote from the profeffion of poetry . Moliere's fa- ther brought his fon up an upholsterer ; and Peter Corneille wore a counsellor's gown ...
... most eminent french poets , who honoured the reign of Lewis XIV . were by birth and education remote from the profeffion of poetry . Moliere's fa- ther brought his fon up an upholsterer ; and Peter Corneille wore a counsellor's gown ...
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abfurd action Addiſon admire Æneid affertion Aladin alfo alſo antients Ariofto beauties beſt Boffu Boileau Camoens Ceuta cifm compofed compofition confequence confifts criticiſm defcription defects deferves defign difcover difplays Effais fur elegant enthuſiaſm epic poem epic poetry excellent expref fable fame fays fenfibility fentiments fhall fhew fhining fhould fimple fingle firft firſt fome fometimes fpecies fpirit ftanza ftriking ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuperior genius Gierufalemme greateſt Henriade hero himſelf Homer Iliad imagination inftances itſelf juft leaft Leonidas lyric poetry Milton moft Monf moſt mufic muft muſt nature nius noble numbers obferved occafions ouvrages paffages paffing paffions painting Paradife Loft Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poeme Epique poet poetic poetry praiſe Priam profeffion qu'il racter reader reafon refpect reft Shakeſpear ſhall ſome ſpeak Taffo tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tout uſe vaft verfe Virgil Voltaire whofe wrote καὶ
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