The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... critics who write in a po- fitive dogmatic way , without either language , genius , or imagination . If the reader would fee how the best of the Latin critics writ , he may find their manner very beautifully defcribed in the characters ...
... critics who write in a po- fitive dogmatic way , without either language , genius , or imagination . If the reader would fee how the best of the Latin critics writ , he may find their manner very beautifully defcribed in the characters ...
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... critics have taken notice of . It is where Sifyphus is reprefented lifting his ftone up the hill , which is no fooner carried to the top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the bottom . This double motion of the stone is admirably ...
... critics have taken notice of . It is where Sifyphus is reprefented lifting his ftone up the hill , which is no fooner carried to the top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the bottom . This double motion of the stone is admirably ...
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... criticism . N ° 254 Friday , December 21 . Σεμνὸς ἔρως ἀρετῆς , ὁ δὲ κυπρίδῳ ἄσχος ὀβέλλει . On love of virtue reverence attends , But fenfual pleasure in our ruin ends . W HENI confider the falfe impreffions which are received by the ...
... criticism . N ° 254 Friday , December 21 . Σεμνὸς ἔρως ἀρετῆς , ὁ δὲ κυπρίδῳ ἄσχος ὀβέλλει . On love of virtue reverence attends , But fenfual pleasure in our ruin ends . W HENI confider the falfe impreffions which are received by the ...
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... Criticism is of a very large extent , and every particular master in this art has his favourite paffages in an author , which do not équally strike the best judges . It will be fufficient for me if I discover many beauties or ...
... Criticism is of a very large extent , and every particular master in this art has his favourite paffages in an author , which do not équally strike the best judges . It will be fufficient for me if I discover many beauties or ...
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... critic and philofopher endeavours to palliate this . imperfection in the Greek poet by im- . puting it in fome meafure to the very nature of an epic . poem . Some have been of opinion , that the Æneid also Labours in this particular ...
... critic and philofopher endeavours to palliate this . imperfection in the Greek poet by im- . puting it in fome meafure to the very nature of an epic . poem . Some have been of opinion , that the Æneid also Labours in this particular ...
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