Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Usefulness of Classical Learning. By James Beattie, ... |
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... last part of the following fentence , which , as it now ftands , is a reproach to huma- nity . " One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words , " which are never to be revived , but when found or figni- " ficancy is wanting in the ...
... last part of the following fentence , which , as it now ftands , is a reproach to huma- nity . " One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words , " which are never to be revived , but when found or figni- " ficancy is wanting in the ...
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... last , he rivals Horace ; the style of whofe epiftles he has happily imitated in his Religio Laici , and other didactic pieces ; and the harmony and elegance of whofe odes he has proved that he could have equalled , if he had thought ...
... last , he rivals Horace ; the style of whofe epiftles he has happily imitated in his Religio Laici , and other didactic pieces ; and the harmony and elegance of whofe odes he has proved that he could have equalled , if he had thought ...
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... last refpect he is perhaps fuperior to all other English poets , Milton himself not excepted . Till Dryden appeared , none of our writers in rhyme of the laft century approached in any measure to the harmony of Fairfax and Spenser ...
... last refpect he is perhaps fuperior to all other English poets , Milton himself not excepted . Till Dryden appeared , none of our writers in rhyme of the laft century approached in any measure to the harmony of Fairfax and Spenser ...
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... last we come to raise them to a degree of perfection fuperior to any thing to be found in real life . There cannot , fure , be any mystery in this doctrine ; for we think and speak to the fame purpose every day . Thus nothing is E 4 ...
... last we come to raise them to a degree of perfection fuperior to any thing to be found in real life . There cannot , fure , be any mystery in this doctrine ; for we think and speak to the fame purpose every day . Thus nothing is E 4 ...
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... last - mentioned incomparable artist is particularly obfervant of children , whofe looks and attitudes , being lefs under the control of art and local manners , are more characteristical of the fpecies , than those of men men and women ...
... last - mentioned incomparable artist is particularly obfervant of children , whofe looks and attitudes , being lefs under the control of art and local manners , are more characteristical of the fpecies , than those of men men and women ...
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Page 150 - ... it is very imperfectly, because we know not why: — the singer, by taking up the same air, and applying words to it, immediately translates the oration into our own language; then all uncertainty vanishes, the fancy is filled with determinate ideas...
Page 127 - When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...