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Page 41
... expression : but we shall be contented with observing that nature ' cannot fade into eternal day , ' that the ' flick'ring flood ' is worse than Mason's " bick'ring blade ; " and that the concluding sentence of the Ode is so inverted ...
... expression : but we shall be contented with observing that nature ' cannot fade into eternal day , ' that the ' flick'ring flood ' is worse than Mason's " bick'ring blade ; " and that the concluding sentence of the Ode is so inverted ...
Page 48
... expression , and still less any thing like ornament or elegance . It displays , however , a fluency of language , and , with the exception of some licentious and barbarous phrases , a considerable command of pure and intelligible Latin ...
... expression , and still less any thing like ornament or elegance . It displays , however , a fluency of language , and , with the exception of some licentious and barbarous phrases , a considerable command of pure and intelligible Latin ...
Page 345
... expression ( the ipsissima verba ) of passages given by Mr. Macpherson , in the poems of which he has published the ... expression may be allowed ) in the Gaelic , which do not occur in the specimen of Fingal , given in the appendix to ...
... expression ( the ipsissima verba ) of passages given by Mr. Macpherson , in the poems of which he has published the ... expression may be allowed ) in the Gaelic , which do not occur in the specimen of Fingal , given in the appendix to ...
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