The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... poetry , wit , humour , and fatire , he certainly was not obliged to the ancients . Except Horace , how * For a further account of African manners , we refer the reader to a long and interefting extract in this Month's Re- view . little ...
... poetry , wit , humour , and fatire , he certainly was not obliged to the ancients . Except Horace , how * For a further account of African manners , we refer the reader to a long and interefting extract in this Month's Re- view . little ...
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... poetry appears to me admirable , and though the fourth book has obfcurities , I prefer it to the three others . It has defcriptions not to be furpaffed by any poet that ever exifted , and which , furely , a writer merely ingenious ...
... poetry appears to me admirable , and though the fourth book has obfcurities , I prefer it to the three others . It has defcriptions not to be furpaffed by any poet that ever exifted , and which , furely , a writer merely ingenious ...
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... poetry was explained and when the Eclogues of Virgil became the topic of examina- tion . We then specified the fubjects best fitted for this kind of poetry , and expatiated on the advantages of which it is almoft exclufively poffeffed ...
... poetry was explained and when the Eclogues of Virgil became the topic of examina- tion . We then specified the fubjects best fitted for this kind of poetry , and expatiated on the advantages of which it is almoft exclufively poffeffed ...
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... poet afferts the dignity of his profeffion , laments his poor encouragement , and infinuates to the Prince what a brave figure he would have made in verfe , had he been as good a patron as he was a fubject to the muses ! This coldness ...
... poet afferts the dignity of his profeffion , laments his poor encouragement , and infinuates to the Prince what a brave figure he would have made in verfe , had he been as good a patron as he was a fubject to the muses ! This coldness ...
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... poet are diftinguished among the ancients by the name of Idyllia , or Idylls , in order to exprefs the finallness ... poetry . To perfons who have no tafte for rural perfonages and fcenes , they will not perceive and relifh the beauty ...
... poet are diftinguished among the ancients by the name of Idyllia , or Idylls , in order to exprefs the finallness ... poetry . To perfons who have no tafte for rural perfonages and fcenes , they will not perceive and relifh the beauty ...
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