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The wild horror , terrific events , and mythological theogony of Æschylus , seem to have occupied the mind of Speron Speroni when he wrote this tragedy ; which is on so disgusting a subject , that a modern audience would not bear the ...
The wild horror , terrific events , and mythological theogony of Æschylus , seem to have occupied the mind of Speron Speroni when he wrote this tragedy ; which is on so disgusting a subject , that a modern audience would not bear the ...
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Not contented with ransacking the Adam of Andreini for similitudes , the tragic scene of Adam and Eve , by Troilo Lancetta Benacence , is analysed ; in order to prove the possibility of that author's having first thrown into the mind of ...
Not contented with ransacking the Adam of Andreini for similitudes , the tragic scene of Adam and Eve , by Troilo Lancetta Benacence , is analysed ; in order to prove the possibility of that author's having first thrown into the mind of ...
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This question is similar to that in which it is inquired whether the mind can , at the same instant , dwell on two ideas ? An Essay on the Art of conveying secret and swift Intelligence . By Richard Lovell Edgworth , Esq . F.R.S. ...
This question is similar to that in which it is inquired whether the mind can , at the same instant , dwell on two ideas ? An Essay on the Art of conveying secret and swift Intelligence . By Richard Lovell Edgworth , Esq . F.R.S. ...
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Addison avoided both faalts : his metaphors are selected with care and taste , or rather seem to spring spontaneously from his subject ; they are exhibited to the mind but for a moment , that the leading traits of similitude may be ...
Addison avoided both faalts : his metaphors are selected with care and taste , or rather seem to spring spontaneously from his subject ; they are exhibited to the mind but for a moment , that the leading traits of similitude may be ...
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... and too vague for the niceries of metaphysical distinction . It was fitted for him whose object was to catch what floated on the surface of life ; but it could not serve him who was to enter into the depths of the human mind , to ...
... and too vague for the niceries of metaphysical distinction . It was fitted for him whose object was to catch what floated on the surface of life ; but it could not serve him who was to enter into the depths of the human mind , to ...
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| Title | The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal Volumes 1215-1247 of Early English newspapers Volumes 384-432 of English literary periodicals |
| Contributors | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths |
| Publisher | R. Griffiths, 1799 |
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